U.S. Politicians Push for Ukraine to Cut back Freedom Additional

A Ukrainian official mentioned Tuesday that American politicians are pressuring Ukraine to decrease the minimal age of conscription from 25 to 18 to make extra younger males accessible for fight.

“If this data has surfaced, I can affirm it: American politicians from each events are placing strain on President Zelensky to elucidate why there is no such thing as a mobilization of these aged 18 to 25 in Ukraine. The argument of our companions is that when the US fought in Vietnam, folks have been drafted from the age of 19,” Serhiy Leshchenko, an advisor to President Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of employees, wrote on Telegram.

That is from Dave DeCamp, “U.S. Politicians Are Pressuring Ukraine to Decrease Draft Age to 18,” Antiwar.com, October 15, 2024.

And Leshchenko names names (or, no less than, one identify):

Proper earlier than Zelensky signed the invoice decreasing the draft age to 25, he obtained a go to from Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who known as for youthful Ukrainians to be despatched to the frontlines. “I might hope that these eligible to serve within the Ukrainian navy would be a part of. I can’t consider it’s at 27,” Graham mentioned. “You’re in a combat in your life, so try to be serving — not at 25 or 27. We’d like extra folks within the line.”

Freedom to decide on your individual occupation is so valuable. I do know that numerous of my pro-freedom allies assume that the First Modification is our most vital modification. However I believe the Thirteenth Modification is much more vital. (Though I admit that that Modification hasn’t been examined since 1918 and that the Supreme Court docket flunked the check.)

I hate to see American politicians advocating that in nations the place the persons are a lot much less free than we, these nations’ governments ought to cut back that freedom much more. As one distinguished American politician likes to say, “Thoughts your individual rattling enterprise.”