Summary

Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered 160,000 more Russians aged 18–30 be drafted from April 1 to July 15, amid U.S.-brokered ceasefire talks.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned the Kremlin is preparing a major offensive in Sumy, Kharkiv, and Zaporizhzhia, accusing Russia of stalling negotiations to gain territorial leverage.

Over 100,000 Russian soldiers are confirmed dead. Ukraine reported 46,000 dead and 380,000 wounded.

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      That just means you are the cannon fodder style infantry. You’ll be the guy sent out to catch a drone or two.

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      Just fail it

      So you can be shuffled in with the grunts rather than the officers?

      The military loves putting dumb-dumbs through basic and stacking them on the front lines to catch stray bullets.

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        I mean, you can also fail out at basic too IIRC.

        Also, you need a college degree to be a commissioned officer.

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            You can absolutely get chaptered out for failing basic multiple times.

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              Given the degree of physical, psychological, and - not uncommonly - sexual abuse you experience along the way, I wouldn’t recommend the experience.

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                You sound like you are objecting for the sake of objection. You have been provably wrong in certain cases.

                I wouldn’t recommend the military either, but there are facts and then there are falsehoods. You have been treading on the side of falsehoods and that is mighty dangerous because abuse of all kinds does occur in the armed forces. However, the amount of incorrect information you have been touting may lead people to believe that the abuse suffered are falsehoods as well.

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                  You have been treading on the side of falsehoods

                  If you’ve been through basic or seen people who have, you’d recognize how difficult it is to fail out and how easy it is to simply be abused into a sufficient state of compliance.

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      Or if ever American says they’re gay, they’d never join the military because DEI and such.

      Or just be black, brown, Asian, trans, a celebrity or rich. America doesn’t want any of that in the military either

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        They don’t want poc or women to be career.

        They want women pregnant, so they are “safe” in that sense. They want white officers commanding brown conscripts to go do the dying.

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      Just don’t ace it or every branch of the military will start harassing you at home trying to get you to join.