Thanks To Scott Moe, There Are Likely Hundreds of "Wanted" Ukrainian Passport Holders in Saskatchewan
It's time to look up Saskatchewan. This especially disgraceful meteor is hurtling towards you, right now.
The United Kingdom didn’t want force its own men to fight the Great War.
But by 1916 its government had to introduce conscription law, because young Brits had lost the zeal they’d shown for the first two years of battle, which continued to rage unabated.
In the early days of Russia’s 2022 violent invasion of Ukraine, thousands of men and women lined up to get back into their country, to join up to fight.
Two years later, Ukraine’s military defenders are exhausted. Their mental and physical reserves are depleted to a point most of us will never comprehend.
No one wants to force Ukrainian men to fight, especially Vladimir Zelensky. It’s a wildly unpopular proposition, for obvious reasons. It’s also not great for what’s left of Ukraine’s shocked and fragile economy.
Martial law, banning men aged 18 to 60 years from leaving Ukraine, was imposed on February 24, 2022, the day Russia invaded. It has been controversial, but remains in place to this day, despite attempts to get around it.
There are a few exceptions to the travel ban, including single fathers, men who have three or more children, and men with disabilities.
On 2 April of this year, Zelensky reluctantly signed into law a military mobilization bill that had been passed by Ukrainian parliament eleven months earlier. He’d been dragging his feet on it, because of provisions in the bill like lowering conscription age from 27 to 25 — another unpopular concept with voters in any country.
The bill also imposed sanctions on military-aged male Ukrainian passport holders living outside Ukraine.
We’ll come back to that.
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