RE: Russia and Ukraine
January 15, 2024 at 6:48 pm
(This post was last modified: January 15, 2024 at 6:54 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Do we think more young russians or more young ukranians fled? Meanwhile, the russians that fled actually did face conscription while whatever young men and women left ukraine do not. Ukraine is younger than russia, and ukraine shields it's young male and female population from conscription. The ukranian government realizes this issue will be severe, so they took action - while the russian regime doesn't give a shit, start over again at the beginning.
The idea that ukraine has worse dempographics than russia is, yet again, part of the firehose of russian misinformation people take as factual. The aim is to foster an impression of a soviet-alike inevitably by (correctly) stating that russia has many more "fighting age males". A superficial truth, since the "fighting age males" of russia are untrained, 8-80, blind..crippled, or crazy...and a merc to the very last (replacement) man.
The idea that ukraine has worse dempographics than russia is, yet again, part of the firehose of russian misinformation people take as factual. The aim is to foster an impression of a soviet-alike inevitably by (correctly) stating that russia has many more "fighting age males". A superficial truth, since the "fighting age males" of russia are untrained, 8-80, blind..crippled, or crazy...and a merc to the very last (replacement) man.
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