Fucking grim
There are plenty of potential recruits left.
They just don’t have the political stomach to implement true equality. So they continue to treat men as disposable.
Redditors when Ukrainians are unwilling to send literally everyone to their certain death: 😱😱
Good point.
The reason isn’t that they believe men are disposable. It is that they believe women are inferior. Just look at the comments in this topic.
True equality’s impossible, both are inherently different.
And that justifies treating men as disposable assets of war?
Some of the best combatants in modern warfare - and no few in historical warfare - have been female.
Conscription should not be bigoted and sexist.
Conscription should not be
Conscription should not be
Exactly! But… where it already exists, and is needed, why should it be bigoted and sexist?
Legitimate question, maybe it’s because the practice of conscription is rooted in patriarchy? The idea that a group of men with superior social power forcing men with inferior social power to fight and die for them seems to be very patriarchal to me. With that lens it makes sense why women aren’t conscripted, it’s not their job. Maybe their job is to be the prize for the victor…? That’s dark…
The average man outperforms the average woman in effectively all tasks related to physical strength and endurance. Surely you see why warfare, something largely dependant on physical strength and endurance, is mainly left to men.
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyudmila_Pavlichenko
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mariya_Oktyabrskaya
- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Witches
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/embargo-1300-idf-solidifies-role-of-all-female-tank-crew-after-two-year-trial-deemed-a-success/amp/
- https://www.airforce.com/origin-story
Aside from infantrymen and marines who might need to hump 100+kg of gear across rough terrain and run the risk of engaging in close-quarters and possibly even hand-to-hand combat, modern weapons largely negates the strength advantage of men.
100% of all support roles and probably up to 80% of all combat roles can be employed by women without any degradation of direct combat effectiveness.
Can you provide me with a statistical ratio of those great combatants? Specifically for those who are in the frontlines and fighting.
Men are much more suited for war, and the skill set of women is better utilized elsewhere.
What skillset is that exactly?
hmmm…things that don’t require much physical strength and endurance? ( Any answer that is more complex will result in a messy ideological argument, which I don’t want to engage in.
Actually, you know what? I don’t think I want to continue this argument. I am sorry for provoking your replies and then abandoning the conversion, I really am )
Edit: I usually don’t do such a thing but I’m not feeling well today.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Others from this rural area — about 45 miles from the borders of Romania and Moldova — have fled abroad or found ways to avoid the war, either with legitimate exemptions or by hiding.
Ukraine’s parliament is debating a bill to expand the draft pool, in part by lowering the eligibility age to 25 from 27, but few decisions are being made in Kyiv that will quickly answer the army’s urgent needs.
In the west, the mobilization drive has steadily sown panic and resentment in small agricultural towns and villages like Makiv, where residents said soldiers working for draft offices roam the near-empty streets searching for any remaining men.
“People are being caught like dogs on the street,” said Olha Kametyuk, 35, whose husband, Valentin, 36, was drafted in June by soldiers who approached him and asked for his papers after he stopped for coffee on the main road outside Makiv.
When the soldiers realized he was already serving, he said, they asked how he felt about men “‘who haven’t seen a single day of war” — which he said he regarded as a forced, hollow show of camaraderie.
On a recent morning, Lyuda Shydey stood weeping in front of the portrait of her younger brother, Serhiy Kozynyak, who was killed in 2022 in Avdiivka, a city that fell to Russian forces last month.
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But there’s a man right there in the picture!
This just in: warhawking has consequences.
Congratulations, liberals. Once again you successfully sowed death and destruction.
Last time I checked, Putin, the one who invaded Ukraine, is certainly not a Liberal.
Lol what? Putin was picked by the US and believes in private property and capitalism/liberalism. He’s a liberal.
Putin was picked by the US
I could easily say that for many other current/previous seemingly democratically elected rulers or outright dictators of underdeveloped or developing countries, starting with Kissinger and continuing it with Blinken now, but about Putin? You need to put some evidence, or at least some plausible mental gymnastics, behind this claim so as not to be ridiculed left and right.
Liberalism does not just mean capitalism. Most of Liberal thought is about political rights, the kind of political rights that Putin obviously has no care for.
about political rights
Which stops the moment you use force, riots, and violence to sabotage liberal governments like MLK and communists like Mandela did. And liberals did not like those people at the time.
Communists had to pry these concessions from liberalism with organized violence, don’t pretend like liberalism did these things. The lgbt liberation movement waved the flag of the legitimate vietnamese government during the US invasion. Marsha Johnson, Leslie Fienberg, communists.
“The white liberal differs from the white conservative only in one way: the liberal is more deceitful than the conservative.”
- Malcolm X
"who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.”
- MLK, 1963
Liberals’ reaction to the genocide in Palestine and lack of support for Hamas, PFLP, etc has made it clear to me and most other communists how true this is.
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Liberals’ reaction to the genocide in Palestine
Why Liberalism Won’t Solve Anything
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Cannon fodder for the West.
They got duped, good.
