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Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on 
Real good sign your side is winning when you're conscripting a 39yo, especially someone who is arguably way more valuable left helping run your propaganda war on
The 25+ conscription age is unusual. Isn't it the opposite in most places? You want your soldiers young, dumb, and full of cum as the saying goes. If I'd been conscripted in my early 20s I'd probably have gone along with it as I was an uncritical idiot. It was only after age 25 that I would have probably abandoned my life and gtfo instead of dying in a ditch for some nationalist myth.
The average age of a us infantryman in ww2 was 26 I believe. In Vietnam it was 19 and was kinda noted for being too young. Also in Napoleons grand army the conscription age was 20-25 so long as you weren’t married. Then when you consider special forces guys are all pretty much early to mid 30’s you kinda realize 18-20 year olds in the military are pretty much cannon fodder. A military needs “young” but capable (read life experience) to actually be effective. For example Russia recently upped their minimum age to 21 for that reason pretty much. Especially now that we are definitely in an age where technology is playing a major role in combat.
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Ukraine does not have that many men between 18 and 25.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine_population_pyramid_2024_UN.png
Look at the gigantic dip near the bottom.
Conscripting men between 18 and 25 would not provide many men, while completely destroying that already tiny generation.
wow i wonder what could have happened around the late 80s and early 90s to cause the birth rate to massively decrease as social stability was upended
Why save lives when you could fruitlessly fight for land?
Interesting. I wonder if they thought that through -- "this war will destroy a generation" has rarely stopped countries from fighting wars.