Darnell Clayton :verified:
Draft dodgers trying to escape #Ukraine 🇺🇦 to avoid fighting #Russia 🇷🇺. Interestingly, smugglers are allegedly bribing border control to look the other way.
📹 How thousands of Ukrainian men are trying to dodge the conflict https://youtu.be/KXhC8WREVKM
Some Ukrainians are signing up on their own (which is a good sign). However, the front lines need relief, as they have been constantly fighting for months on end.
Darnell Clayton :verified:
@1dalm That is great advice! Yeah, no one sane wants to go fight strangers and engage in the art of slaughter, but people should serve to defend their country if it is under attack. Just do not volunteer (unless the situation is extremely dire of course).
Dallas (Join Something IRL)
My father told me once that our family's position on enlistment is "If they call your name you serve and you serve honorably and you serve the minimum, but you don't volunteer."
Funny enough, after doing some genealogy on my father's line, this appears to be the wisdom going back to the American Revolution. My 6th-great grandfather was ordered to serve in the revolutionary war, he served 3 months, saw one battle, and went home -which was apparently enough at the time to get him a full pension (he had to sue for his pension which is how we know the story).
None of my other g-grandfather's in that line served in the military until my grandfather was drafted in WWII. He got put on radio duty in Oklahoma.
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