- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@sh.itjust.works
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- Ukraine@kbin.social
- cross-posted to:
- worldnews@sh.itjust.works
- globalnews@lemmy.zip
- Ukraine@kbin.social
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/1338851
Archived version: https://archive.ph/yDjTx
Archived version: https://web.archive.org/web/20230811193345/https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-fire-all-regional-military-recruitment-chiefs-zelenskiy-2023-08-11/
Trump and Biden both avoided the draft with “1-Y” (medical) exemption. Keep in mind that more than half the 27 million eligible males were exempted or disqualified for some reason, so it’s not as if this was something only politicians did.
I would wager there was a higher percentage of the wealthy that somehow got an exemption