Comments by "UzuMaki NaRuto" (@UzumakiNaruto_) on "Can Ukraine stop the flood of soldiers deserting the frontlines? | DW News" video.

  1.  @stupidburp  I think the number of women on the frontlines are extremely small even now and I'm almost 100% certain that those women who are currently anywhere near the frontlines ARE NOT fighting soldiers, but probably in support roles like a medic or something.
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  2.  @stupidburp  Some people are better suited for front line combat than others. But with a manpower shortage even less suited volunteers are preferable to reluctant conscripts or worse, an empty slot. You know what's worse than an empty slot? Filling it with a person that's not qualified or ready to fight on the frontlines that you have to constantly keep an eye on and protect from danger. The best thing with Ukrainian forces having more women in its army right now is to free up more men to become combat troops to help those that are already on the frontline with the fighting and allowing them to take some time off after being in constant combat for so long. As I said before allowing women to be combat pilots, drone operators or be in some other long distance combat role is fine, but thinking they can fight on the frontlines especially for long term is madness. I served with some women that were harder and stronger than most men. Should not prefilter out potentially good soldiers, let them all try to pass the entrance training and fitness standards. If this is actually true then those women are unicorns that DO NOT represent 99.9% of the rest of the female population on this planet. For every woman that can fight as well or better than a man, there's at least 100,000 that are much worse. All you have to do is look at Israel who despite being one of the very few nations that mandates that both men and women serve in the military, EVEN THEY don't send women into offensive battles. Almost all female soldiers in the IDF are only expected to handle defensive duties of protecting Israel. Pretty much all offensive actions undertaken by the IDF still almost all are done by male soldiers. So even the IDF who has one of the longest histories of training women for combat have still concluded like most every other sane person that its not a good idea to put women in harms way unless absolutely necessary because they're simply less capable then men.
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  3.  @stupidburp  Nope, they now are over 10% of the total force up from 0% just a couple of years ago. It takes time to make the shift but Ukrainian women are standing up. Some of the earliest volunteers were assigned as snipers and their main complaint at the time was that the uniforms made for men didn't fit very well, but otherwise they were doing fine. Sure there are Ukrainian women serving with their military, but outside of those few snipers, almost none of them are actually fighting on the frontlines as soldiers. I've only ever seen them on the frontlines as medics or in some other support role. There's been a few videos that I've seen during the war where they showed Ukrainian women in uniform laying dead on the battlefield, but never was it during combat. So if more women are joining the Ukrainian army to help that's a good thing, but none of them should ever be a frontline soldier because they'll never be able to handle it when even plenty of men can't handle it. Many are also assigned as small drone operators working at the front just a bit behind the contact lines. That's the best place for women who choose to serve to be. Behind the frontlines in support of frontline soldiers. If people are honest then they'll acknowledge that women aren't suited for frontline combat units because outside of a tiny few exceptions, women aren't physically, mentally and emotionally capable enough to operate long term on the frontlines of a battlefield. The one big exception to this is combat pilots or serving on a combat vessel where you can be on the 'frontlines' without physically having to fight the enemy in close quarters. And really outside of being perceived as not being the 'equal' to men, I really don't know why any woman would ever desire to be a frontline soldier when they should be thanking their lucky stars that they can usually avoid all the horrors of war that men have to deal with where even if they survive a conflict, many will have to deal with PTSD for the rest of their lives.
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  4. If they have the best western game changer weapons and 1500 Russian soldiers are dying a day according to western media then why they're deserting. Because the men being recruited now aren't anywhere near as motivated to fight for their nation as the ones who joined and volunteered before the war started. Many of them are dead, captured or suffered injuries that prevent them from fighting anymore and of course the next waves of men joining will be less and less willing to fight unless Russian forces were marching into Kiev or something. I'd say if NATO countries had provided maximum support from the beginning of the war by giving them tons of modern western weapons, this war might've ended by now with a Ukrainian victory or at least have put them in a much better position and saved many thousands of Ukrainian soldier's lives. The problem is NATO to this day is still only giving the Ukrainians just barely enough to survive and continue the war without enough supplies to weapons to allow them to achieve a major victory if not complete victory.
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  5. Aren't Russian soldiers dying on the orders of Putin for a war that never needed to be fought to begin with?
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  6. And Russian men are fighting Putin's war. Do you really think any of them want to fight in Ukraine for the glory of their nation? LOL.
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  7.  @veljkoivetic1903  Russia has no problems with manpower. So why did they bring in thousands of North Koreans to join their war? Why did they raid their prisons to take everyone they could to bring them into the fight? Why are they offering ever higher wages to join the military to fight for them? Those aren't things that you do when you have 'no problems with manpower'. Theoretically Russia shouldn't have issues with manpower, but they do because they don't want to fully mobilize all their young men for the war. If he could do that, don't you think Putin would've done so already?
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  8.  @milnjfasgasg466  If the Russians aren't losing a ton of men, then why even bring in tens of thousands of North Koreans to the battlefield?
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