You publicly ran a save-our-colleague campaign. “Our priority has been keeping them safe,” you “used our available connections,” called them “incredibly talente

You publicly ran a save-our-colleague campaign. “Our priority has been keeping them safe,” you “used our available connections,” called them “incredibly talented,” said it would be “extraordinarily misguided to send them to front line combat” – and (per Meduza’s write-up of your own posts) you tried to get that case in front of military command hoping they wouldn’t end up at the front. Denying that this was special pleading is absurd; selective protection for an insider while countless other conscripts (many equally talented and important in their fields) get no such advocacy is a moral and ethical failure.