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As Denmark plans to make national service mandatory for young women, some say they are ready to 'send a signal to Russia'
Australian Broadcasting Corporation ^ | Tue 14 May 2024 | Kathryn Diss

Posted on 05/20/2024 7:57:31 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Bjørg Hjorth Nørgaard, 19, has not finished high school yet but has already enlisted to pay a duty to her country.

The young woman has volunteered for Denmark's four-month military training camp before university, fully aware that war has returned to Europe.

"It's a personal journey … I have signed up at my own free will," she said.

"It's no longer an argument that men fight wars, women do it as well now."

Young men in the country have for a long time been conscripted based on a lottery system.

If your number is called, it is compulsory to attend four months of basic military training, although others are welcome to join voluntarily, including women.

But Denmark's government is planning to make it gender-neutral, meaning 18-year-old women will be in the lottery too.

The time commitment for conscripts will also increase to 11 months so trainees can learn more combat skills.

"It has a more serious note now … and there's this more serious aspect of war in Europe that has an effect on all of us," Bjørg said.

(Excerpt) Read more at abc.net.au ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: conscription; denmark; draft; kathryndiss; putin; putinbotinfestation; russia; serious; thedenmark; theputin; therussia
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To: DesertRhino
The leadership back in the day just looked more substantial. Maybe if the current gang started doing their group photos in black and white.


61 posted on 05/21/2024 12:41:39 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: MinorityRepublican

And that signal is we will provide you free women during wartime.


62 posted on 05/21/2024 2:51:48 AM PDT by servo1969
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To: servo1969

It would not surprise me if conscription of Ukranian women was really about trafficking them. Wouldn’t surprise me at all.


63 posted on 05/21/2024 3:36:16 AM PDT by Jonty30 (He hunted a mammoth for me, just because I said I was hungry. He is such a good friend. )
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To: Reverend Wright

In a drone war, women would be an equal to men...


64 posted on 05/21/2024 3:51:38 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: Rdct29

Begets fewer Muslims in their military.


65 posted on 05/21/2024 3:53:14 AM PDT by Does so ( 🇺🇦....We are in the later stages of a Communist takeover...)
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To: lightman

“Ramping up for the next WW.”

Si Vis Pacem, Para Bellum


66 posted on 05/21/2024 4:06:17 AM PDT by MeganC (Ruzzians aren't people. )
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To: Jonty30
3. Having both men and women work out of the home was purposefully planned by the socialists to get us to hand over our children to the government and turn both partners into wage earners, which resulted in wages being cut in half.

Yep! Serfdom!
67 posted on 05/21/2024 4:16:47 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Is this the same Denmark that fought off the Germans for 45 minutes before surrendering?


68 posted on 05/21/2024 4:47:34 AM PDT by wny
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To: MinorityRepublican

This is a good thing? This would be a nail in the coffin of feminism if common sense prevailed.


69 posted on 05/21/2024 5:08:17 AM PDT by Ge0ffrey
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To: srmanuel
True, women are not meant to be in every military position, but they are qualified for more than support, drone or supply jobs and if they can do the job, they should be able to do them.

If you want units to be combat effective, they should be segregated by gender.

70 posted on 05/21/2024 5:14:05 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: Jonty30

It’s still correct, just in a different way.


71 posted on 05/21/2024 6:05:05 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: Rdct29

There won’t be any combat effectiveness.


72 posted on 05/21/2024 6:06:20 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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To: 1756-L85E
English is not her native language

1756-L85E: All Danish children are required to learn English

Am well aware of that fact. But the fact remains that English is not her native language.

Regards,

73 posted on 05/21/2024 6:08:43 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Jonty30
English gets its grammatical structure from the Danes.

You realize, of course, that Old English and Old Danish separated roughly a thousand years ago.

Regards,

74 posted on 05/21/2024 6:15:12 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: Bulwyf

Soon to come to America when draft is re-established with the Big War that is coming.Only married and pregnant women will be exempt—watch as the Baby Boom hits! You come a long way baby! Now your so equal you can get to be shot!


75 posted on 05/21/2024 6:24:29 AM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell)
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To: nwrep

I don’t know. I searched on “Danish women” and found her...along with more skimpily dressed Danish women. I chose “modest” over flashy...not my usual route...LOL.


76 posted on 05/21/2024 7:01:28 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: moovova

Then I rest my case. Google gives more weight to biracial images.


77 posted on 05/21/2024 7:09:21 AM PDT by nwrep
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To: Does so

Despite the video they show you, this is not a drone war.

Eighty percent of casualties in this war is from artillery. Similar to WW1, WW2, Korea. etc.


78 posted on 05/21/2024 8:45:47 AM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: alexander_busek

So when do you start your war “personal journey?”

You seem to be looking forward to it.


79 posted on 05/21/2024 10:35:12 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████ ████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: Disambiguator

I just can’t get used to the idea of women in combat.

But I suppose they can be part of the butcher’s bill as well as anyone.


80 posted on 05/21/2024 10:48:55 AM PDT by Candor7 (Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!),<img src="" width=500</img><a href="">tag</a>)
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