• lechatron@lemmy.today
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    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.

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

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          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

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            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.

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

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

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        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

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