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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.
Can't wait to hear ill-informed critics explain how evil Zelenskyy is for sending children to war
He's evil for sending people to war who don't want to go.
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?
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.
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
Why stop there. Can we stop letting people fight even if they want to?
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 could scoop random people off the street to die for a doomed war and you mfers would still support him.
He lowered the minimum age from 27 to 25. What a monster.
It's not like his country is at war or at risk of being invaded by one of the world's biggest military power or anything, right?
How long will it take before the age ratchets down again? And then further? And then further? I give it another two years-- if those nazis can even last that long-- before Zelensky's pushing teenagers into the meat grinder. And he won't think twice. The people controlling him would do for him the same way if he did.
