Trump’s future adviser urges Ukraine to go “all in” and lower draft age
Pravda Ukraine
Mike Waltz, Donald Trump’s incoming National Security Adviser, believes that Ukraine should lower the draft age to attract hundreds of thousands of new troops and stabilise the frontline.
Source: Waltz in an interview with ABC News
Quote: “The other thing we are going to need to see is really stabilising things on the battlefield. And one of the things we’ll be asking of the Ukrainians is, they have real manpower issues.
Their draft age right now is 26 years old [it is in reality 25 – ed.], not 18. I don’t think a lot of people realise that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers.
So, when we hear about morale problems when we hear about issues on the front line. Look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy.”
Details: According to Waltz, lowering the draft age is necessary to stabilise the frontline so that a deal can be reached.
Background:
- On 19 November, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated that Ukraine had received a significant supply of various American weapons but continued to face challenges on the battlefield, attributing the difficulties to issues with mobilisation.
- After that, the media reported that the Biden administration was calling on Ukraine to rapidly increase the size of its armed forces by, among other things, revising its mobilisation legislation to allow people from the age of 18 to be drafted into the army.
- At the time, US billionaire Elon Musk, an adviser to US President-elect Donald Trump, criticised US calls for Ukraine to allow mobilisation from the age of 18.
- According to media reports, the disputes over the number of mobilisation and the age of mobilisation have led to tensions between the presidents of Ukraine and the United States.
- On 19 December, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, commenting on discussions about a possible reduction in the mobilisation age, said that it was more urgent to provide the army with weapons and training from the West.
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