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Supreme Court of Ukraine: illegal mobilisation is not an excuse to demobilise the person (sud.ua)

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[–] 211@sopuli.xyz -1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Conscription is done in preparation for "mass kidnappings of cannon fodder", as you put it.

No?..

...yes? Or do you think the countries with peacetime conscription do it for shits and giggles, and the massive economic benefit of half the population losing about a year of working life?

[–] bobr@lemmy.libertarianfellowship.org 3 points 7 hours ago

Okay, then surely you can show me a shittone of examples of such a massive campaign of kidnappings happening to people forbidden from leaving the country because they are needed as cannon fodder that happened in modern history (let's say last two centuries)?