In this Ukrainian village, almost no men are left

Fucking grim

NATO will fight this proxy war to the last Ukrainian.

Bizarre to read how Ukrainians fighting a Russian invasion and having men dead because of that is now NATO's fault somehow.
I like these looks at logic and ideology totally bizarre to me. Lemmy is great for that
- NATO, specially the US, has meticulously blocked off all options other than an invasion by being an anti-Russia org and repeatedly not letting Russia join NATO because of that, backing the 2014 fascist coup in Ukraine to sideline the Minsk agreements against the interests and wishes of Eastern Ukrainians
  and the subsequent killings of ethnic Russians in Eastern Ukraine, like Donbas, DPR, and LPR, by the coup gov for resisting.
  They are also the ones blocking negotiations with Russia. So yes, this is NATO using Ukraine for a proxy war.
- Ukrainians are literally being dragged off the street by the regime to be thrown into the meat grinder. Meanwhile, most Ukrainians aren't even in Ukraine anymore. In fact, Russia has the highest population of Ukrainian refugees at the moment.
- 😂
- This is ml, NATO bad
Some most likely western libs just in this thread are already advocating for Ukraine to draft women too and of course using the argument of "equality" for their bloodlust.
Russia may try, but it'll never erase Ukraine nor the fact Ukraine made Russia.
- 🥱
- Another brave redditor, speaking from the front lines

There are plenty of potential recruits left.

They just don’t have the political stomach to implement true equality. So they continue to treat men as disposable.

Redditors when Ukrainians are unwilling to send literally everyone to their certain death: 😱😱
The reason isn't that they believe men are disposable. It is that they believe women are inferior. Just look at the comments in this topic.
Good point.
True equality's impossible, both are inherently different.
- And that justifies treating men as disposable assets of war?
  Some of the best combatants in modern warfare - and no few in historical warfare - have been female.
  Conscription should not be bigoted and sexist.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Others from this rural area — about 45 miles from the borders of Romania and Moldova — have fled abroad or found ways to avoid the war, either with legitimate exemptions or by hiding.

Ukraine’s parliament is debating a bill to expand the draft pool, in part by lowering the eligibility age to 25 from 27, but few decisions are being made in Kyiv that will quickly answer the army’s urgent needs.

In the west, the mobilization drive has steadily sown panic and resentment in small agricultural towns and villages like Makiv, where residents said soldiers working for draft offices roam the near-empty streets searching for any remaining men.

“People are being caught like dogs on the street,” said Olha Kametyuk, 35, whose husband, Valentin, 36, was drafted in June by soldiers who approached him and asked for his papers after he stopped for coffee on the main road outside Makiv.

When the soldiers realized he was already serving, he said, they asked how he felt about men “‘who haven’t seen a single day of war” — which he said he regarded as a forced, hollow show of camaraderie.

On a recent morning, Lyuda Shydey stood weeping in front of the portrait of her younger brother, Serhiy Kozynyak, who was killed in 2022 in Avdiivka, a city that fell to Russian forces last month.

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But there's a man right there in the picture!

This just in: warhawking has consequences.

Congratulations, liberals. Once again you successfully sowed death and destruction.

Last time I checked, Putin, the one who invaded Ukraine, is certainly not a Liberal.
- Lol what? Putin was picked by the US and believes in private property and capitalism/liberalism. He's a liberal.

Cannon fodder for the West.

They got duped, good.