Fighting to the Last Ukrainian

It appears that the United States has been pressuring the Ukraine to lower its draft age to 18, because the White House wants more bodies to throw in the meat grinder.

There is an African proverb, "When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffer."  This appears to be the case here.

In case you are wondering, the US motivation for this entire clusterf%$# is geopolitics, not the rule of low or peace, or anything else:

Ukraine should consider lowering the age of military service for its soldiers to 18 from 25, a senior U.S. administration official said on Wednesday, putting pressure on Kyiv to bolster its fighting forces in the country's war with Russia.

Speaking to reporters, the official said Ukraine was not mobilizing or training enough new soldiers to replace those lost on the battlefield.

"The need right now is manpower," he said. "The Russians are in fact making progress, steady progress, in the east, and they are beginning to push back Ukrainian lines in Kursk ... Mobilization and more manpower could make a significant difference at this time as we look at the battlefield today."

Russian forces are making gains in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said this week.
In April Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy signed into law legislation to lower the mobilization age for combat duty from 27 to 25, expanding the number of civilians the army could mobilize to fight under martial law, which has been in place since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

Lowering the draft age might seem to be the sensible thing at first glance, but it does not reflect the realities on the ground.

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A source in Zelenskiy's office said the country did not have what it needed to equip the troops it was mobilizing now.

"Right now, with our current mobilization efforts, we don’t have enough equipment, for example armored vehicles, to support all the troops we are calling up," the source said. "We cannot compensate for our partners’ delays in decision-making and supply chains with the lives of our soldiers and of the youngest of our guys.”

Seriously, the Washington foreign policy Blob seems to define infantry as an army of infants.

These psychopaths never seem to realize that there are real human casualties as a result of their pursuit of a, "Great Game."