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[–] [email protected] 91 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Meanwhile isn’t the US drafting at 18+ also?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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] 11 points 6 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 months ago (1 children)

They can but haven’t since the Vietnam war.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 6 months ago

Ah so our active age is what, like 20, 21?

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can't wait for bloody thirsty Zionists like you from Lemmy world to support Nazi Ukraine US puppet regime.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Can we please stop making people fight if they don't want to?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I recommend we force our leaders to fight to the death since they believe in the war so much and think its so necessary.

RobotJoxx here we come!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Why stop there. Can we stop letting people fight even if they want to?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

So many people being "wooshed" by this comment

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

As a bot spotter this is a totally legit person