The Ukraine conscription age is 25. If they were desperate for soldiers it would be lowered. It was 18 for the United States in the Vietnam war. Definitely wouldn't be grabbing people off the streets.
The US was a large country with normal demographics in the era of Vietnam, fighting a war with low deaths - less than 60k over ~10 years of fighting. Ukraine is a fraction of the size of the US, was already in a major demographic crisis before the war started, and is fighting a war where they are suffering high death rates.
This [1] is a population of pyramid from Ukraine 2 years ago. It's going to look dramatically worse now. They simply don't have many people below the age of 25. And you shouldn't just view those people as fodder. That is essentially the future of Ukraine. Send them off to die and you literally and figuratively send the future of Ukraine off to die.
So the two wars aren't especially comparable at all.
Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda, hoping no one will look any closer - clearly given what you've linked, here and what you're pretending it's responsive to.
Why, specifically, should they "be considered a small sampling"? Because that betters your apologia? Because it makes you feel good?
You can find literally thousands of clips of busification [1] online. [2] And obviously those clips themselves are themselves hardly comprehensive. In part because not every incident is filmed, and in part because Zelensky made it illegal to share and record those videos within Ukraine, so those are people risking their own wellbeing to share what's happening. That site I linked to is even banned in Ukraine.
And as the war looks increasingly decided these sort of incidents will only increase, because people don't want to die, and they especially don't want to die in vain.
> Implying that's the entirety of their army recruiting is obvious bullshit and propaganda
Why, specifically, it is "obvious bullshit and propaganda"? Because that betters your apologia? Because it makes you feel good?
I know it is pointless to say anything to brainwashed people, particularly those who think everyone around is brainwashed except them. Very few incidents came to light just because people are scared and afraid. zelenski secret police can make people disappear easily without any sort of trial. Just blame someone is a russian spy. Surely western mass media machine largely don't talk about it.
