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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
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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.