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Does anyone know how the Ukrainian men 18 to 60 are doing in the war, I never hear anything about it. I know they don't want non Ukrainians with no military experience there now so, how effective are the Ukrainians with no military experience?

I wonder why they stopped non Ukrainians with no military experience going over to fight? would a 22 year old from say the UK not be more useful than a 58 year old Ukrainian man? as a soldier, say the 2 men have similar abilities, only difference being age.

China is not surprising but Brazil and India need to mind their step and South Africa? well, it still shocks me that these countries are willing to suck up to a crazed madman.

point to note, Brazil's president is on a fine line with his own people, India's Modi is on his last legs and South Africa is hardly a beacon of stability giving its in hock to China. I kinda feel better now

The old-timers being sent to the front line from Russia are seriously out of shape and are just cannon fodder. Russia cares not an iota for their own army as long as its makes up the yards on the ground. I doubt those old guys can even see straight these days never mind shoot straight.

The sound on this alone is amazing. Ammo. going up-

Have a look the story of McNamaras Morans. During the Vietnam war at the behest of the Secretary of Defense McNamara the minimum IQ requirement for draftees in the US army was significantly dropped.

One thing I remember reading was a comical but tragic report of issues in training experienced by the army. Draftees of this type could not grasp the concept of gravity and drop. When in training for throwing grenades with an object (wall) between them and the target they would throw grenades directly at the wall as they could not understand that the grenade would drop when thrown over the wall.

The tragedy was high rate of casualties among those poor men and the rate of casualties they caused by mistake amongst their fellow soldiers.

Pity his likely replacement isn't much better on Ukraine.

I am aware of the slight josip 😉

Unfortunately this is what these poor men were called at the time by the frustrated training sergeants assigned the impossible task of teaching men who could not tie their laces (true) with the skills required to handle weapons in combat. They were also referred to as McNamaras idiots, fools and fatsos.

The characters of Forrest and Bubba in Forrest gump were in reality based upon these unfortunates, with the caveat that there was no Forest Gump fairytale ending for many of the 40,000 McNamara victims that were sent to Vietnam.

Actually I was and I mis-spelt it twice!

And yes they have had conscription which means they can choose from the cream of the past conscripts. Ukraine will not suffer from the lack of quality required that the US suffered in the 1960s and Russia does today.