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The average age of Ukrainian soldiers fighting Russia is 43-45, while the youngest troops remain exempt from front-line combat
Fortune ^
| May 26, 2024
| OLESIA SAFRONOVA, KATERYNA CHOURSINA, DARYNA KRASNOLUTSKA
Posted on 05/29/2024 2:30:20 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican
Where are the young people and why won’t they fight?
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:33:52 PM PDT
by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Depleting the population of military-aged males who might back a coup, if it got to that stage. Younger males who haven’t seen battle tend to be more passive.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:34:36 PM PDT
by
CatOwner
(Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
To: MinorityRepublican
why do you think the average age is 43-45?
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:34:40 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: ConservativeMind
Take a look at their demographics after the collapse of the Soviet Union. They're trying to preserve this generation of young men so Ukraine can survive.
To: MinorityRepublican
This saves Ukraine in the long run by not having to spend as much on senior benefits. It also means less of their baby-making population is dying in the war.
but it's still a losing war for Ukraine.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:35:51 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(A1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: Tell It Right
Putin will turn 72 this year.
So this is where NATO may intervene. French troops may man positions on the border with Belarus.
That will free up more Ukrainian troops to man the 600 mile front.
To: MinorityRepublican
Putin will turn 72 this year.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:43:19 PM PDT
by
Tell It Right
(A1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
To: MinorityRepublican
You should work for the Ukrainian Ministry of Propaganda.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:45:04 PM PDT
by
McGruff
(Don't underestimate Joe's ability to f*** things up - Barack Obama)
To: Tell It Right
Vladimir Putin is a neo-Soviet dictator.
All the Soviet dictators did not live a long time. 70 is considered to be old back in the Soviet Union.
To: McGruff
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:51:04 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
To: CatOwner
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:51:53 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: MinorityRepublican
So opposite to the claims that Ukraine is emptying orphanages for soldiers, the truth is they have been too lenient with their draft.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:53:16 PM PDT
by
Williams
(Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
To: Williams
the truth is they have been too lenient with their draft.Finally they've lowered the age of the draft to 25.
To: ConservativeMind
I’m gonna guess a lot are dead killed in the earlier fighting.
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:57:55 PM PDT
by
matt04
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To: Williams; MinorityRepublican
they have been too lenient with their draft.Is that what you Zeepers call the needless slaughter of nearly 500,000 Ukranian soldiers?
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posted on
05/29/2024 2:58:36 PM PDT
by
JonPreston
( ✌ ☮️ )
To: Williams
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posted on
05/29/2024 3:05:32 PM PDT
by
mac_truck
(aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
To: MinorityRepublican; Tell It Right; McGruff
French troops may man positions on the border with Belarus.Once they're inside the borders of the Ukraine, they're fair game.
And the commanders won't be able to keep the young froggy soldiers off their cellphones.
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posted on
05/29/2024 3:07:57 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
To: MinorityRepublican
“...to avenge her son who’d been killed fighting the Russians almost a decade before”
I’m reliably told hostilities started with an unprovoked invasion in February, 2022.
Unless she means her son was a nazi killing russkie civilians in the recently ‘conquered territory’ following the 2014 coup, that is.
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posted on
05/29/2024 3:08:34 PM PDT
by
TonyinLA
(I don't have sufficient information to formulate a reasoned opinion said no lefty ever.)
To: JonPreston
I'm going to have to add the "age limit" lie to the lie about the number of Ukrainian casualties.
The Ukie casualty lie is the most offensive, but this one about the age is right up there.
I imagine that the Ukie press gangs wipe themselves with the ID cards of the ones they grab.
As usual, the Western Media is looking the other way on this story.
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posted on
05/29/2024 3:11:07 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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