Friday, February 16, 2024

When you realize that, no matter how hard you try, you can't win

 

This Newsweek headline says it all:



I've heard of long-term conscription, and military service "for the duration", but this is ridiculous!  Are they planning to call up the corpses from the local graveyard, too?

(Perhaps I shouldn't have said that.  It might give the current personnel-deficient US Department of Defense ideas . . . )



Peter


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12 comments:

  1. Mind your own businessFebruary 16, 2024 at 9:12 AM

    They're just keeping up with the Ukrainians, who are drafting pregnant women for combat.

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  2. Andrew BFebruary 16, 2024 at 9:16 AM

    Just the Russians going Old, Old, Old School. In the early 19th century, while fighting Napoleon, the term of enlistment for Russian soldiers was 25 years, also putting most of them in service beyond their life expectancy. Everything old is new again!

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  3. HMS DefiantFebruary 16, 2024 at 10:21 AM

    The interesting bit is that they don't seem to have much trouble getting young men to volunteer for the fighting in the Donbass. On the other hand one could say much the same about Hamas finding recruits everywhere.

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  4. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2024 at 10:33 AM

    I'm not sure Newsweek is a reliable source, especially when they shifted from potentially reporting a fact to yet another "go Ukraine go" commercial. Objective reality is, Ukraine cannot win and the decree is a public illustration of the Russian will in the matter. Zelensky has destroyed his country.

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    1. ColdSoldierFebruary 17, 2024 at 9:23 AM

      Bingo. Nothing more than a propaganda arm of the regime.

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    2. The WraithFebruary 17, 2024 at 11:23 AM

      Newsweek still exists?

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  5. Jim LebeauFebruary 16, 2024 at 12:26 PM

    I think some politicians know how that is done.

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  6. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2024 at 2:39 PM

    C'mon man! Didn't the US lead the world in making sure that the dead can keep voting long, years-long after they reached room temperature...?

    /sarc

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  7. lynnFebruary 16, 2024 at 3:32 PM

    Yup, the times they are getting tough.

    The Greater Depression is coming.

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  8. AnonymousFebruary 16, 2024 at 4:14 PM

    Politicians here in the US routinely get Dead people to vote. Russia getting dead men to serve in their military is clearly the next step. We have to keep up. We must not have a zombie gap!

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  9. bobbyFebruary 17, 2024 at 1:02 AM

    Forced conscription of bad males as punishment is too valuable for the R's to only use it on young people. Now they can use the "you're going to Ukraine" threat much more universally.

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  10. JohninMd.(HELP!)February 18, 2024 at 9:43 PM

    I can see DARPA now, working on re-animating Arlington......

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