Russia and Ukraine

[The Grand Nudger]

Blinken wants to lower Ukraine’s conscription age from 24 to 20 or 22. And that new weapons and training will still be provided to these troops one way or another.
 
https://www.yahoo.com/news/blinken-says-...17763.html
 
So I won’t exclude the possibility that Trump and Elon Musk may have some sort of plan for this conflict.

Yeah, it's generally accepted that 18-24 is prime service age.  Physical performance and standards increase over that period and then fall off a cliff thereafter.  Particularly for infantry which are crucial to physically taking and holding territory.  Ukraines been smart, holding off on this for two reasons.  First to have their prime service population available at their time of greatest need..and second so that they might have a demographic future after the war.   Russia went the other way with it, and we see how that's worked out for them.

It's certainly true that from an immediate military perspective ukraine could have used those extra troops, otoh ukraine already has more troops than they have equipment for.  They stood up a few brigades this year - took conscripts off the line to train them in maneuver warfare while russia was pushing on the promise of a certain amount of gear and vehicles from the west which never materialized.  So they lost ground and still don't have those brigades fully operational.  

Trump and Elmos plan is to surrender ukraine to the russians on ukraines behalf.  There's no "may" here - it's already out in the open.  Keith Kellog is the man for the job.  General Surrender.