There is a Forum in Russia at the moment. These happen often and this one is centred around the SMO.
'The boys will be driven to the slaughter' - Putin said what will happen if Ukraine starts mobilizing 18-year-olds.
'I think that the next crime of the Kyiv regime will be lowering the mobilization age to 18. This is a crime. Even if they lower it to 14, like in Hitler's Germany, it will not change the situation on the battlefield. At the behest of the US, they will also lower the mobilization. And the boys will be driven to the slaughter. Just as today they catch people on the street, like stray dogs, and drive them under the bullets. The boys will be driven in the same way. And then, the regime leaders will flee.'
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Are Americans aware? The informed, yes. The normies, highly doubtful. Western cosmo elite have been asking Z to lower the age throughout the SMO, and he has lowered it twice. He can't/won't lower it to 18 because he faces too much backlash from the public and his own cabinet.
https://youtube.com/shorts/7iLmYkdk4aU?si=fE8hI7iytgF2XvIF
It’s not up to Zelensky; he does what Blinken et al tell him.
Well they've been very public about pressuring him to lower it again and he has repeatedly said no. IMO it would be the end of Z. Opportunists would usurp his green shirt if he lowered it again.