Ukrainian lawmaker Vadim Ivchenko admitted in March 2026 that fewer than 10% of new recruits join voluntarily, making forced conscription, in his own words, ‘impossible to abandon.’
Chat is it bad if my army is 90% terrified conscripts?
i’ve been seeing videos on social media of random strangers on the street stop whatever they’re doing and help fight off their army’s conscription officers when they try to abduct young men off the street to send them to war and this explains why it’s happening.
And United24, the platform that Western celebrities have used to fundraise for Ukraine, was literally founded by Zelensky. People share its articles as though its news.
It’s not. It’s state propaganda, and they’re not even discreet about it.
That explains the wave of “Nord Publishing” United 24 bots that were ubiquitous on Lemmy a couple of months ago.
Ukraine is being used as a testing ground for NATO’s military-industrial ambitions, its forces deployed to generate combat experience with drones and tactics that can then be shared with other NATO members. This is, in the clearest possible terms, a proxy war, and the proxy is being destroyed.
And these tactics will be turned upon the West’s own children and elderly, to press them into conscription for Western business interests, like they have Ukraine’s children and elderly.
Of course, if you define Ukraine as its puppet government, controlled by NATO and kept in place by the same Western powers that benefit from every day this war continues, then yes, they want to keep fighting. It is not their children being sent to die. Zelensky’s children live safely outside Ukraine, as do the children of the vast majority of the Rada. The West is determined to fight Russia until the last Ukrainian. And the Ukrainian people, the real Ukraine, the only Ukraine that matters, have made clear that they are no longer willing to be the last Ukrainian.
As someone in another thread of this story said…
The man calling for elections is in bed with Elon musk and palantir. He’s the current reason it’s turning into a test bed for weapons.
