• RiverRock@lemmy.ml
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    1 day ago

    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?

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      21 hours ago

      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.