• @[email protected]
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    908 months ago

    Zelensky signed several laws on mobilization on April 2, one of which lowered the minimum age of compulsory military service from 27 to 25, making men eligible for the draft from age 25.

    The current draft age in the USA is 18-25.

    • @glimse
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      348 months ago

      Can’t wait to hear ill-informed critics explain how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war

        • @glimse
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          208 months ago

          Yes, it’s 18 here.

          I was a bit worried when I saw the headline for that reason. I forgot the US is an outlier with being perfectly OK with sending kids to war before they can legally drink alcohol

          • @[email protected]
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            118 months ago

            It used to be that the draft age was lower than the voting age in many states. There was a constitutional amendment during the US-Vietnam War to drop the voting age to 18 because if you’re old enough to be forced to fight in a war, you’re old enough to have a say in the war.

          • @EmpathicVagrant
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            118 months ago

            Used to be if you could go to war you could drink on base, but they took that away years ago.

      • @Woozythebear
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        108 months ago

        He’s evil for sending people to war who don’t want to go.

        • @glimse
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          18 months ago

          My “woke mind” lmao

      • @shneancy
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        78 months ago

        I’m sure Zelensky would agree in a heartbeat to defend Ukraine in a 1v1. But getting the coward Putin to do that? No way in hell that’d happen

  • @CluckN
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    18 months ago

    As an ill-informed critic, this explains how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war