Zelensky: Ukraine draft age lowered because younger generation fit, tech-savvy
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The current draft age in the USA is 18-25.
Can't wait to hear ill-informed critics explain how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war
Meanwhile isn’t the US drafting at 18+ also?
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
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.
Used to be if you could go to war you could drink on base, but they took that away years ago.
They can but haven’t since the Vietnam war.
Ah so our active age is what, like 20, 21?
He's evil for sending people to war who don't want to go.
My "woke mind" lmao
Can we please stop making people fight if they don't want to?
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!
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
As an ill-informed critic, this explains how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war
So many people being "wooshed" by this comment
As a bot spotter this is a totally legit person
He's making a joke in referrence to the first response under the top comment. Not everything needs an /s
Clown clown Yes papa Committing war crimes No papa