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[–] lechatron@lemmy.today 95 points 1 year 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.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[–] Woozythebear@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year 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

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year 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.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They can but haven’t since the Vietnam war.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

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