Zelensky’s tough new conscription law is not going over well. From Tarik Cyril Amar at swentr.site:
Kiev’s new effort to scoop up more bodies for the front is a response to looming catastrophe – and a catastrophe in itself
A patch with the Ukrainian flag on a trooper’s arm as Ukrainian soldiers take part in a military training in Poland, on April 4, 2024 © Wojtek Radwanski / AFP
Ukraine’s situation is extremely precarious, if you want to put it optimistically. A more realistic term is “catastrophic.” The country faces steady, accelerating advances of Russian forces that are well-motivated and trained and superior in quantity and equipment. Even Ukraine’s commander-in-chief has admitted that “the situation on the eastern front has significantly worsened in recent days.” A massive understatement but still proof that things are even worse.
We also know – from Ukrainian polls – that ever more Ukrainians are open to ending the war by making concessions. Yet the Zelensky regime is doubling down. Instead of entering serious negotiations – the kind where you adjust your aims to your losses so as to avoid even greater ones – it is seeking to throw more lives into a war that has become a meatgrinder for Ukrainian troops.
That is the main purpose of a new mobilization law that has just passed the Ukrainian parliament. (In addition, President Zelensky has already signed off on additional measures that will be integrated into the new law once he signs that as well. In essence, though, this is one integrated bundle, which many Ukrainians and outside observers refer to as one and the same law, as will be done here.)
Pushing them into the meatgrinder for depopulation and another pay day from Uncle Brandon?
What kind of evil is this?
Maybe CERN really did open some portal of evil.
The patch kind of looks like an old Waffen-SS unit symbol.
I heard there are some Yahtzees in 404. (wink)