Comments by "Marvin Westmaas" (@MarvinWestmaas) on "Ukrainian Parliament Declared Mobilisation for 500 000 Soldiers! | Ukraine War Update" video.
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@rediii9239 What I meant to say is this:
In one case, a Dutch family suffers during the war: the father goes off to fight and is killed. Their house is bombed, resulting in the death of one of their three children. The Germans, referred to as 'Moffen' in Dutch during WWII, invade and take over the town. The eldest surviving son joins the resistance but is eventually captured and executed. The youngest child, a girl, endures sexual abuse by German soldiers and, years later, takes her own life. The mother survives, however...
Does it really matter if there was one Dutch family suffering for every thousand Ukrainian families? The anguish is the same.
When it comes to 'pain,' numbers do not matter, especially to those who are left to grieve.
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@BTinSF "U.S. involvement in WWII grew to be about 16,000,000 military personnel by the war's end: approximately 11,200,000 in the Army, 4,200,000 in the Navy, and 660,000 in the Marine Corps."
1940 US census had it at 132 million inhabitants... 'only' 16 million were in the military.
You can't mobilize every able bodied men, you need people to work 'normal' jobs to keep the country running.
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@BTinSF ,, you change 132 million to 26 million 'fit for service' but you can't do that for the 31m Ukrainians in total, and you base that on 'the US was not in an existential war for survival' which is pretty ludicrous since 18 would eventually look to the US if he had been able to subdue the British.
WW2 for the US was very much an existential war.
Btw, if from 132m the only 'able bodied' were 26 million ( ~19% )... so let's use that same number for Ukraine.. 5.9 'million potential.
Since from the 26 'potential' you mention, only 16 actually served in any capacity ~ 61%
2.7 million from 5.9 million ~ 46%.
The ~20% difference, while sounding large, is most likely caused by Ukraine having a less industrial base ( main export is agriculture ), which is much more labor intensive thus not allowing equal participation in the war effort if Ukraine also needs to keep it's economy running.
Ukraine would need much more economical aid if they were to mobilize more able bodied people. Aid they are not even getting enough now, so it's ludicrous to claim they should lower their economic output to bolster the number of bodies in their military. They wouldn't be able to equip and train them, and also keep the country running.
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