Comment on YSK about Project 100,000, when the US conscripted people with mental disabilities to be used as cannon fodder in Vietnam, suffering triple the casualties of other soldiers

cypherpunks@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Ukrainian Defence Ministry amended the criteria for medical exemptions, reclassifying people with tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, thyroid disease and HIV to be fit for military service

  I think that’s a bit different than drafting mentally challenged people to be canon fodder

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  • Vupware@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    typical .ml

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    • hatorade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      ***Numerous Ukrainians with disabilities have been drafted over the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4][5][6] ***The Ukrainian Defence Ministry amended the criteria for medical exemptions, reclassifying people with tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, thyroid disease and HIV to be fit for military service.[7] On 22 October 2024, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy sign a decree which dissolved the medical examination commissions for determining the severity of disabilities that qualified for military exemptions.[8] On 8 July 2025, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights published a report which acknowledged “***systemic and documented human rights violations under martial law” ***which included the conscription of people with disabilities.[9]

      .ml sucks but if you actually looked at the wikipedia article, you’d see this is a broken clock moment.

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  • hatorade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    ***Numerous Ukrainians with disabilities have been drafted over the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4][5][6] ***The Ukrainian Defence Ministry amended the criteria for medical exemptions, reclassifying people with tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, thyroid disease and HIV to be fit for military service.[7] On 22 October 2024, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy sign a decree which dissolved the medical examination commissions for determining the severity of disabilities that qualified for military exemptions.[8] On 8 July 2025, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights published a report which acknowledged “***systemic and documented human rights violations under martial law” ***which included the conscription of people with disabilities.[9]

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    • jpreston2005@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      you think there might be a difference between russia drafting mentally challenged canon fodder for a baseless war of attrition and Ukraine doing whatever it needs to to stay alive? maybe? a little difference?

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      • hatorade@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Yes there is. I wholely believe there is. But the claim was “they don’t draft the mentally ill” and was proven wrong.

        Ukraine is better fighting for its survival. Russia is an oppressor trying to colonize.

        But the claim was wrong, the commentor was downvoted for giving a link, and someone who clipped only a chunk of a paragraph that proved them wrong was upvoted. That’s Fox News shit.

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• hatorade@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  ***Numerous Ukrainians with disabilities have been drafted over the course of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.[4][5][6] ***The Ukrainian Defence Ministry amended the criteria for medical exemptions, reclassifying people with tuberculosis, viral hepatitis, thyroid disease and HIV to be fit for military service.[7] On 22 October 2024, Ukrainian president Zelenskyy sign a decree which dissolved the medical examination commissions for determining the severity of disabilities that qualified for military exemptions.[8] On 8 July 2025, the Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights published a report which acknowledged “***systemic and documented human rights violations under martial law” ***which included the conscription of people with disabilities.[9]

  They’re downvoting you because they cherry picked from this entire paragraph. Amazing reading levels from .world.

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