Trump aide floats push for Ukraine to lower military draft age

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1. The article discusses a recent statement by former President Donald Trump and Congressman Michael Waltz, suggesting that the U.S. should lower the military draft age in response to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Both men argue that reducing the draft age could help address military manpower shortages while showing support for Ukraine in its defense against Russia. Their proposal comes amid increasing pressure on the U.S. and its allies to support Ukraine more robustly in the war. However, the idea raises concerns about the practicality and fairness of such a move, especially considering the potential impact on young people and the overall readiness of the military.

2. Yeah, start sending those 14 and 16 year old to the front, it is going to really make a difference /s

   Government does not care for its people, they definitely don’t care for the people in the armed forces. Anyone that thinks they do is delusional.

   Ukraine will stop fighting when they have no one else to send to the front, then Russia will get the whole country anyway

3. Buy time with the blood of the younger generation, and for what? A few extra square miles of cold war era rust belt towns and farmland? Besides, manpower is only half the equation, the last European trained brigade rushed to fill gaps in the front lost up to 1/5th of its personnel to desertion before it even took up positions. Morale is shattered and more dead teenagers won’t fix it or reverse the course of the war.

4. The levels of psychopathy shown by american leadership in relation to the Ukraine war are just astonishing.

5. Conscription = slavery. Abhorrent in an allegedly free society.

6. With that equipment? A big reason this hasn’t been done is because there’s no equipment to press men f that age into service…

7. Zelinsky must be so annoyed. Like he hasn’t already thought of that 🙄

8. Hasn’t the Biden admin pushed this as well?

   It’s awful to send young people off to fight and die. War is awful. The alternative is concede to the country that is willing to decimate its younger generation. All the funding in the world won’t remove the necessity of someone doing the fighting.

9. If Ukraine keeps fighting Russia the way they are?…. Yes they will indeed have to lower the age. It’s simple math. Ukraine is running out of man power. This isn’t a “pro Trump” comment or anything. Russia has more people and as we know, Russia has a history of accepting many casualties and wearing down their opponent with attrition.

10. Problem is you’re stuck between a rock and a hard place. Look at the Ukrainian Population Pyramid (primarily the male side) and you’ll see a *massive* crunch at the 15-30yr olds gap. With the lowest at 23. Problem with this is you really, really can’t afford to sell off an entire generation to war. Even ignoring long-term economic collapse, you still need people to be doing those civilian jobs.

    Ultimately, I’m of the opinion that the west needs to buck up and deploy troops into Ukraine. Not for actual warfighting, but for border security and providing the ‘tail’ part of the tooth-to-tail ratio (i.e. Providing troops to do logistics, medicine, repairs, etc). We’d free up a load of Ukrainian troops to fight, without putting ourselves directly on the frontline.

11. That’s a weirdly sane thing for anyone linked to Trump to say.

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