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The Ukraine conscription age is 25. If they were desperate for soldiers it would be lowered. It was 18 for the United States in the Vietnam war. Definitely w
by fhdkweig 8mo ago
The Ukraine conscription age is 25. If they were desperate for soldiers it would be lowered. It was 18 for the United States in the Vietnam war. Definitely wouldn't be grabbing people off the streets.
- somenameforme 8mo agoThe US was a large country with normal demographics in the era of Vietnam, fighting a war with low deaths - less than 60k over ~10 years of fighting. Ukraine is a fraction of the size of the US, was already in a major demographic crisis before the war started, and is fighting a war where they are suffering high death rates. This [1] is a population of pyramid from Ukraine 2 years ago. It's going to look dramatically worse now. They simply don't have many people below the age of 25. And you shouldn't just view those people as fodder. That is essentially the future of Ukraine. Send them off to die and you literally and figuratively send the future of Ukraine off to die. So the two wars aren't especially comparable at all. [1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine2024.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ukraine2024.jpg
- SanjayMehta 8mo ago3.1 million Vietnamese died. But they don't count in USAian math. https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War https://www.britannica.com/event/Vietnam-War
- somenameforme 8mo agoYes, that's a travesty, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the conversation thread.
- SanjayMehta 8mo agoThe USA lost 60k mercenaries but killed 3.1 million Vietnamese. That has nothing to do with anything? Your lack of morals no longer surprises me.
- somenameforme 8mo agoHe was comparing Ukraine to the US, not Vietnam.
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