Comments by "1midnightfish" (@1midnightfish) on "Anna from Ukraine"
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Thanks for this video, Anna, trolls (and somewhat confused people in real life) bring up Ukrainian mobilisation a lot in their attempts to put russia and Ukraine on the same level, and it's good to have as many facts and arguments as possible under my belt to counter this. As for your question, I was a teenager when Italy still had the draft and heard countless stories of young guys doing everything they could to dodge their military service! There's a military base on the train line connecting the two parts of the country where I have family, and I would sometimes chat to young men on their way to attend their medical. One had visibly starved himself so his bodyweight would drop below the required minimum 😦 I think he had a work opportunity that meant a lot to him and there was no way he was letting that pass him by.
It was definitely many boys' dream to be declared unfit to serve. I suppose that compulsory military service can really mess with your life plans, work, study, travel, and on top of that there was a deep-seated (and justified) contempt for the state, so not many people were keen to make sacrifices for it. I do remember one guy doing his compulsory service in the fire brigade, I suppose it's cool that that was possible.
As soon as military service became voluntary for both men and women lots of young women started joining up, apparently - I don't know when that was, exactly, as I was no longer living there by then, but boys born in 1986 or later were exempted from the draft and I remember that because one of those boys is my little cousin.
As you say, there are many reasons why someone may not want to serve in the armed forces, even in Ukraine at this time, that doesn't make them traitors. And there are so many other things that people can do to support the country and the army. Some of us are just not good at taking orders - I know I'm not - and that's OK too. I wish more russians were bad at taking orders.
Слава Україні💙💛
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At the start of the full-scale invasion I realised that the rf had become untenable and had to go, and yes that felt scary. Not because of the nukes, though - I'm scared of nukes in general, tbh the thought of the US having nukes scares me too, considering how they choose their presidents sometimes. But the disintegration of something like the rf is never going to be peaceful, and wishing a huge number of people huge suffering isn't my go-to option for ending the suffering of a huge number of people. I spontaneously got over that frame of mind very quickly though, for all the reasons obvious to everyone who's just watched this video. Moscovia delenda est.
I really appreciate finding out more about the various peoples and territories currently trapped in the rf, thank you for making the video. The people of Yakutia and Siberia seem to have suffered a fate similar to that of Native American and First Nations people, to whom they may even have cultural and genetic ties (I'm not that well-read on that part of human history so advance apologies if I got that last bit wrong). I wonder if superpowers like the US and UK have been so tolerant of the rf, and protective of its unity, for so long because they can ultimately relate to it as another imperial power.
My unwavering support of Ukraine doesn't mean I'm closing my eyes to the shameful imperialist history that made these superpowers in the first place. I just hope they manage to do the right thing for once, and give Ukraine everything it needs to win the war and catalise the rf's downfall. 💙💛
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