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

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

Conscription for popular wars doesn't get to the point Ukraine is at. The U.S. drafted soldiers in WWII without the situation deteriorating to this point, for example. Then when they tried that for an unpopular war (Vietnam) it created all sorts of problems and the draft was scrapped.