> particularly when talking older uneducated men putin may prefer they are all killed off since they're totally useless to him except as cannon fodder. nah funnily enough they've almost been doing the opposite. while shills have been making a big deal of supposed western pressure for ukraine to start conscription 18 year olds russia has been doing so basically the whole time and is only now raising the age for conscription. there's also the issue of widespread disability among those who make it back only putting a drain on the economy
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