A recent decision to restrict consular services for fighting-aged Ukrainian men has made a Ukrainian man in Canada feel less certain of his next steps — and worried he could be pulled back to the war.
I fully support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, but holy shit conscription is evil. There’s no way I’d want to see my kids drafted to their deaths.
This is kinda a weird take. War is evil but conscription is a universal aspect of every total war. Every country on earth reserves the right to conscript its citizens in the case of national emergency.
Shut the fuck up, you’re only saying that because you don’t think it will be you. We are humans who have the right to decide not to kill another human. Most Ukrainians would rather live in Russia than die in a fucking trench with their legs blown off at the age of 24.
Makes sense to me. If I were any sort of combat specialist, I’d volunteer. I however wouldn’t be very useful, as they use a different type of reactor to the ones I was trained on.
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I fully support Ukraine in its defense against Russia’s invasion, but holy shit conscription is evil. There’s no way I’d want to see my kids drafted to their deaths.
This is kinda a weird take. War is evil but conscription is a universal aspect of every total war. Every country on earth reserves the right to conscript its citizens in the case of national emergency.
Shut the fuck up, you’re only saying that because you don’t think it will be you. We are humans who have the right to decide not to kill another human. Most Ukrainians would rather live in Russia than die in a fucking trench with their legs blown off at the age of 24.
Dying in a trench seems way more likely under Russian rule.
Source: The half a million Russians fertilizing sunflowers on Ukrainian soil… so far.
Go join the war then
I was surprised to read last week that the average age of the mostly volunteer army up to now is 43.
Makes sense to me. If I were any sort of combat specialist, I’d volunteer. I however wouldn’t be very useful, as they use a different type of reactor to the ones I was trained on.
Yeah, it sucks that we live in a world where we have to fight fascism.
Do it anyways.