Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz suggests Ukraine should lower its conscription age to 18.
"Kyiv faces serious manpower issues, and their conscription age isn’t even 18. If they’re asking the world to go all-in for democracy, they should act accordingly.”
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/1-1-rep-mike-waltz-117598228
"Kyiv faces serious manpower issues, and their conscription age isn’t even 18. If they’re asking the world to go all-in for democracy, they should act accordingly.”
https://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/1-1-rep-mike-waltz-117598228
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Meanwhile, the same guy and the rest of team trump are going all-in to meet with dictator putler. 🤦♂️
Infuriating.
But it is ludicrous to pretend that Ukraine has no agency and is free from criticism for some of their disastrous decisions.
Ukraine didn’t have enough fielded forces to remove Russian forces from all occupied territories at that point.
What Ukraine accomplished in Fall of 22 was in and of itself amazing. But that was the limit for that period of time…
Explain to me how Ukraine would have achieved total victory in the fall of 22. I legitimately want to hear your hypothesis on it.
Manpower wouldn't be a concern if the US and NATO fulfilled their obligations under the security guarantees Ukraine received for giving up their nukes - such as providing a NO-FLY zone to prevent Russia from having air superiority!
First and foremost, it lacks equipment for troops it already has, much less more troops.
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• Zelenskyy requested 300 tanks.
• The US eventually sent 30 tanks.
• There's no real excuse not to send more, because the US has thousands of obsolete tanks in inventory.
https://bulgarianmilitary.com/amp/2023/04/10/us-will-sell-obsolete-but-refurbished-abrams-m1a2s-to-the-balkans/
• Ukraine has been waiting for years, and its need is far more urgent.
There is no way whatsoever to keep the spirits up, even in a younger group of personel, if all they can look at and hear about is devastation on their territory
Ukraine doesn't do meat assaults.
Soulless and an unlimited supply of poor kids to toss in the meat grinder.
But when you're too coward or miserly to help, you quickly come up with excuses.
https://ukraineaidops.org/
https://u24.gov.ua/
2. If this generation of young men dies in war before they had a chance to get kids, the country will lose its future
3. Waltz is an idiot
It simply distracts the casuals from the truth: Only continuing to provide lots of support will solve the problem. But we know that Rumpists don't want to do that, hence all the hand waving to distract people.
He has repeatedly made it VERY clear he is not going to do this, so instead of trying to control this war how YOU want, how about you respect their decisions for THEIR OWN country.
Because all the aid in the world isn’t going to make up for hollowed out brigades holding increasingly fragile lines…
However, a lot of people run around on here absolutely delusional about where the war is and the trajectory it is (currently) on. Way too many people seem to think they can hold everything without expanded mobilization.
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