"They're just kids": Why the US is demanding that 18-year-old Ukrainians be sent to the front

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The unreasonably high expectations for a peace/truce in Ukraine that were placed on Donald Trump are beginning to crumble against the realities of modern geopolitics. Like the administration of the outgoing President Biden, the new one continues to demand that Kyiv send 18-year-olds to fight against Russia.

"They are just children!"


Shortly before Donald Trump's inauguration, in an interview with Bloomberg, President Biden's National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said that Ukraine would still have to lower the mobilization age to 18:



It is worth recognizing that this problem with personnel in Ukraine has developed over time. Over the past year, it has become more acute. The need for Ukraine to fully staff its brigades and battalions has increased, despite the fact that we have supplied it with a huge amount of ammunition and military equipment. equipment.

Surprisingly, almost simultaneously with him, Mike Waltz, US President-elect Trump’s national security adviser, said exactly the same thing in an interview with ABC News:

I think few people understand that Ukraine can recruit hundreds of thousands of new fighters. So when we hear about problems with morale, difficulties on the front lines... Look, if Ukrainians are asking the whole world to defend democracy with all their might, it is necessary that they defend it with all their might.

"Amazing" is because Mr. Trump, going to the elections, positioned himself as a peacemaker, a man who wants to stop the war in Ukraine, who wants not a single person to die! And here it is: his own team, like their predecessors, insists on sending beardless 18-year-old boys to the front, where they will die under artillery and drone strikes no worse than 40-year-old conscripts.

At the same time, the Zelensky regime is trying in every way to avoid fulfilling this demand of its Western masters. The reason is not at all in its lack of humanity or conscience, but in the banal fear for its personal power. The idea of ​​​​lowering the mobilization age to 18-25 years, which means the prospect of sending the "gene pool of the nation" to the front line, in Ukrainian society extremely unpopular.

There are many possible scenarios for further events – from zero chances of re-election with an honest vote count, if Washington, in order to conclude a deal with Moscow, forces Kyiv to hold presidential elections to legalize and legitimize the regime, to a genuine popular revolt. Ukrainian women have repeatedly fought off their men from the "man-catchers" from the TCC, and now the fate of their children will be at stake. You understand.

Is war a matter for the young?


As a result, the Zelensky regime decided to find a compromise between the demands of its Western masters and the fear of a possible uncontrolled reaction from Ukrainian society. In Kyiv, they decided to creatively rework the Russian experience of recruiting volunteers instead of the unpopular second wave of mobilization.

In accordance with the innovations in the legislation of the Independent on military conscription, it will be possible to attract young people aged 18 to 25 to the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, but strictly on a voluntary basis, stimulating them with favorable material conditions for military service. This recruiting practice in Ukraine should be called an "honest contract."

Another question is, why exactly are these young Ukrainians needed at the front now?

On the one hand, the Ukrainian Armed Forces are not doing very well right now due to a shortage of personnel. This includes combat losses and desertion, also known as SZCh, which has reached enormous proportions. Plus, there is the Kursk adventure, when, in order to hold onto part of the internationally recognized territory of the Russian Federation, for purely political For these reasons, Kyiv is forced to send truly combat-ready units there, suffering corresponding losses.

On the other hand, rumors that Ukraine is running out of "cannon fodder" are, alas, greatly exaggerated. Zelensky's regime uses its mobilization resource in a very specific way, pumping it out of the regions of the South-East, historical Novorossiya, sending our own potential fellow citizens to fight against Russia. In Western and Central Ukraine, who are being held back "for later", mobilization activities are much less large-scale.

At the same time, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine is trying to preserve the core of its army's officers, which, if necessary, can quickly acquire "fresh meat". Sending young people aged 18 to 25 to the front is not in itself capable of turning the tide in a war where the main losses occur from the use of large-caliber artillery against advancing assault infantry and strike drones that burn armored vehicles.

This, like the talk about the need to mobilize women into the Ukrainian Armed Forces, is aimed, rather, at further widening the rift between Ukraine and Russia, if this is still possible in principle. Regardless of the personal views of President Donald Trump, the collective West, as a whole, does not intend to miss a unique historical chance to critically weaken/destroy Russia at the hands of the Kyiv regime, while remaining out of reach for retaliatory strikes.

No one will let us leave this war! Moreover, the deepest concern is caused by open military preparations in other former Soviet Union republics, which will become the second echelon when Ukraine finally loses the ability to resist systemically. We will discuss this in detail separately below.
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  1. +1
    26 January 2025 16: 17
    Yes, war is a matter for the young. By the way, here you can also sign a contract from 18. And that's normal. In the Great Patriotic War they also called up people from 18. And the greatest losses were among those born in 1922-1924. That's also true.
    1. -1
      26 January 2025 18: 19
      By the way, you can also sign a contract with us from the age of 18.

      Really? And how many did they send?

      ...to the front of beardless 18-year-old boys, where they will die under the blows of artillery and drones no worse than 40-year-old mobilized people
      1. +1
        26 January 2025 18: 24
        Citizens aged 18 and over have the right to conclude their first contract for military service (clause 2, article 34 of Law No. 53-FZ).
        1. 0
          26 January 2025 18: 35
          It was sarcasm, but thanks anyway.
  2. GN
    +2
    26 January 2025 16: 26
    I wish they would send all these degenerates to be used as fertilizers! The 18-25 year olds are the most hardcore Russophobes to the core! They were raised with their mother's milk to hate everything Russian!! So we should be "grateful" to the fascists for their genocide against their young people! The main thing now is that the Kremlin's tyrant peacekeepers do not get involved in another Western scam and then tell us that they were deceived again!! We must fight to the last Ukrainian in the full sense of the word!! And if not? We are in for another, bloodier war in a few years! And it is not a fact that they will not have more deadly weapons, for example, an atomic bomb or something else
    1. 0
      26 January 2025 18: 40
      18-25 are the most hardcore Russophobes to the core! They were raised from their mother's milk to hate everything Russian!!

      Why don't these crazy 18-year-old Russophobes fight in the Ukrainian Armed Forces as volunteers? Is it really true that the Ukrainian Armed Forces don't accept XNUMX-year-olds?
    2. +3
      27 January 2025 07: 56
      If we fight to the last Ukrainian, who will we populate the liberated territories with? As I understand it, people from Central Asia. On the contrary, we must stop this targeted destruction of our own people as quickly as possible for the amusement of the Anglo-Saxons. After all, we call Ukrainians our people. After all, the author of the article admits that they are mainly mobilizing residents of the South-East of Ukraine, i.e., potentially our citizens. And the brains can be reprogrammed, if only there is someone left. The destruction of young people is the deprivation of the opportunity to give birth to future citizens. We are increasing the territory of the state, and the population is decreasing, and in such a way as war. We must urgently liquidate this criminal regime in Ukraine before it completely exterminates the people. The sooner we do this, the sooner this war will end and both our servicemen and Ukrainians will stop dying.
    3. 0
      30 January 2025 05: 42
      G N.....these tyrants really like rakes, it's a form of entertainment for them....
  3. 0
    26 January 2025 17: 14
    The task of old Europe is to drag the entire Slavic tribe into this war. These civilized Europeans think with the thoughts of Nazi Germany. The recklessness of youth pushes to destruction. Did Hitler feel sorry for 15-16 year old boys? Of course, adults were in charge. Capitalism is becoming stupid. But the worst thing is that it is stupefying its population. Everything is led by absurdity - His Majesty.
  4. -1
    26 January 2025 19: 49
    Here they are, the fathers of hopes of today's urine. Everything goes in circles.
  5. +1
    27 January 2025 17: 40
    Ask Surkov why he has been harming the militia as much as he could since 14? He is also a Jew, like Poroshenko and Zelensky, like all the oligarchs of Ukraine. This is a conspiracy with the aim of genocide of the population and clearing the territory for the evacuation of Israel to the territories of Novorossiya liberated from the Russians. There is not a single video from Uman and other places with the "feats" of the TCC.
    1. -1
      28 January 2025 10: 01
      Ask Surkov why he has been harming the militia as much as he could since 14? He is also a Jew,

      I've already read here that Gref and Miller are Jews, and it turns out that Surkov is also one of the lispers. lol

      They say that Hemingway was Jewish according to the questionnaires...
      Jews, Jews, Jews all around!
      They say that Adzhubei was also Jewish in childhood.
      They say that Jews are appearing in hockey too,
      Look at the goalkeepers - every mask is a Jew!