President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming national security advisor, Rep. Mike Waltz (R-FL), said Sunday that the Trump administration will ask Ukraine to lower the age of conscription so more troops can be sent to the frontlines.
Under Ukraine’s current mobilization laws, the minimum age for conscription is 25. The Biden administration has been calling for Ukraine to lower it to 18, and Waltz made clear the next administration will do the same thing.
“The other thing we are going to need to see is really stabilizing things on the battlefield. And one of the things we’ll be asking of the Ukrainians is, they have real manpower issues,” Waltz said in an interview with ABC News.
“Their draft age right now is 26 years old [25], not 18. I don’t think a lot of people realize that they could generate hundreds of thousands of new soldiers,” Waltz said. “So, when we hear about morale problems when we hear about issues on the front line. Look, if the Ukrainians have asked the entire world to be all in for democracy, we need them to be all in for democracy.”
Waltz framed the call to conscript younger Ukrainians and the need to “stabilize” the front as necessary to end the war. He said Trump will be speaking with Russian President Vladimir Putin soon, possibly in the coming days and weeks, and will be working to form “relationships” needed to end the conflict.
“From President Trump’s perspective, you can’t enter a deal if you don’t have some type of relationship and dialog with the other side. And we will absolutely establish that in the coming months,” he said.
On the campaign trail and in press conferences since the election, Trump has lamented the fact that so many Ukrainians and Russians are being killed in the war. Waltz acknowledged that the frontlines are a “meat grinder,” yet his comments suggest the Trump administration will continue supporting the conflict in an effort to gain leverage for a deal with Russia.
Waltz also said in the interview that a ceasefire would be a “positive first step” and said he hoped it would happen soon. “That would then allow us to enter into the framework of some type of negotiated solution here,” he said.
Jeffrey Sachs not holding back:
"The US couldn't care less about how many
Ukrainians die. They don't give a fuck." https://x.com/kennardmatt/status/1877652204896543108
The European warmongering elites don't give a shit about Ukrainians either.
Waltz is an idiot to boot. He has no understanding of the demographics of Ukraine.
Yes. By my rough calculation there are fewer than 1 million Ukrainian men in the 19-24 age bracket: about 2.5% of the 37.9 million people who remain ( https://www.populationpyramid.net/ukraine/2024/ ).
The idea to hoover up hundreds of thousands of these young men and ship them out to feed the howitzers is pure homicidal madness.
fewer than 1 million>
lol
The demographics of most countries show a pyramid shape, with a few elderly at the top and a lot of children at the bottom. This is Ukraine's 'demographic pyramid'.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/298df5a4c2d62fc12238c81ba66ce1d0868b8ba7c52ed178ab1dca08dbbae4c2.jpg
Their birth rate right now is the lowest in the world, a negative 6.6/1000 (not counted are the women being surrogate mothers, they're currently 3/4 of the surrogates worldwide). Their official population of 41 million is a fiction as well, experts estimate it's currently around half or two thirds that.
Waltz is the new PomPom,,Trump must check that MOFU fast or face war with Russia and that war will be brought to the USA as it has been brought to Ukraine and Russia.
Any action against the US will be terroristic in nature, and probably pinpoint-focused. Russia has no interest in getting Alaska back, they've got more territory than they have population already (and they especially wouldn't want the Alaskans!)
He's surrounded himself with the same shit he surrounded himself with the first time.
You emit the same nonsense you always have.
You like who he is surrounding himself with? And yet you say this:
Waltz is just an adviser, with no military authority. He can talk tough all he wants.
Doesn't sound like you are defending him by any stretch of the imagination. But never mind, the Don won't listen to any of his advisors so what's to worry about? Am I right?
Waltz is just an adviser, with no military authority. He can talk tough all he wants.
Typical of trump's world. Make a lot of noise and than do nothing. (Except lower the taxes for the super rich.)
Would you at least admit that Waltz is giving shitty advice?
”There’s something happening here!… What it is ain’t exactly clear! There’s a man with a gun over there! Telling me, I’ve got to be fair!”…
Why lower the draft age when Trump is going to end the war next Monday?
Actually at one time he said that he would have a deal with Putin regarding Ukraine after he won before even the inauguration.
"The war will be over, people are dying"
Now: "We need more cannon fodder to die before I can make that peace deal and get the award."
Oh blah blah blahTrump's fault, blah blah blah.
Did he not make those comments?
Your old enough to kill another human being but not old enuf for sex, no smokes, no voting cause you aint old enuf for dat.
Here goes the peace president. More war in the Ukraine. All hell will break out in the middle East if they don't do what Trump orders. Denmark and Panama if you don't want war you better do what I want.
At one time he said that as president he had done more and greater things than any other president combined except "maybe" George Washington.
Wo watch out the world's Peace Maker has arrived.
There goes the propagandist with more smears of Trump.
The war in Ukraine will end quickly, with a cease fire.
Go write some cartoons.
A cease fire will do nothing to end the war. Get your head out of your ass.
A propagandist is not needed to smear trump, he does that all by himself.
He makes it so easy!
Mofo. Who d'fuk are you to cheer on the deaths of more men in service to the demands of other evil men? I once was a goose-stepping conservative back in the day. Ronnie Raygun was my man! But as of 2008 I gave up supporting anyone from any "side" because they're all duplicitous liars! Now get back on your well calloused knees and suck some more warmongering dick!
LOL
are you ok?
the war needs to end mate, and you are the stereotypical die-hard MAGA fan if you think Trump will end it in any wa
You must be the guy that carries Trump's diapers.
So, this guy is for Ukraine to do long range strikes inside of Russia, he's for continuing the military aid and he wants the draft age lowered so they can have "hundreds of thousands of new soldiers". For some reason I've just become skeptical about Trump ending the war in one day.
For some reason you keeping writing the same thing and expecting us to not notice.
If Trump gets a cease fiire quickly, that is an incredible success, regardless of your distorted interpretations.
Your hero Biden said he would eliminate cancer and poverty, he has one week to do that.
The Russians have made pretty clear to this point that a ceasefire is only possible if there is solid evidence that the West will not attempt to take advantage of the lull – at all.
The Russians have also made it very clear that they no longer trust the West – at all.
For some reason a few people here insist on ignoring what the Russian side is stating and continues to state.
The West continues to blow smoke out of its ass by acting opposite to whatever it is mouthing.
I don't give a fuck if you, or anyone else, notice. And speaking of writing the same thing, that would be you accusing anyone who is critical of Trump as being a supporter of Biden. Check out my profile and find something I said that remotely implies that I support Biden or just shut the fuck up already.
Give trump a chance. He has until Jan 21 to work his magic.
On that day he is busy moving into the White House… So no, his magic is undone already…!
You weren't skeptical before? 😉
I figured I didn't need the /s.
This is such a minor point, in contrast the the new and unique effort by Trump to end the war, which our corrupt establishment wants to keep going.
What new and unique effort has he done to end the war? He seems more interested in Greenland than Ukraine.
entertain your thoughts
Why would Ukraine to that? Trump said he would end the war in 24 hours, so after Jan 21 they will not need more troops.
https://apnews.com/article/north-korea-soldiers-capture-ukraine-russia-defect-141433c872649d55358748b179781758
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/103_390202.html 2 North Korean soldiers captured by Ukraine: spy agency
https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/nation/2025/01/103_390281.html 3,000 North Korean troops killed or injured in Russia-Ukraine war: spy agency
https://www.koreaherald.com/National/NorthKorea
So far we have lots of claims by Ukraine, the US, and the South Korean spy agencies, but mysteriously there has been absolutely no evidence provided. There are ethnic Koreans fighting, but they were born and raised on the Russian side of the border (I forget the name of their ethnic group).
So you define the news as war propaganda and follow your conspiracy theory unless Russian sources report otherwise or confirm the facts. ?
I consider pretty much every claim by any government that is not backed up by facts, evidence or actions “propaganda”, and for that matter claims from most corporations.
Since Rep. Mike Waltz is going to be Donald Trump’s incoming national security advisor, is this Trump's new intention to send more young Ukrainians to die? Is this his way to 'solve' the Ukraine-Russia war that Joe Biden provoked in order to 'weaken Russia', as Defense Secretary Austin has said?
This is how he proposes to "end the Russia/Ukraine War (AKA, Russia/NATO/US War)"? Just like I thought, he's going to escalate it.
Well, here’s the thing:
If past performance is an indicator of future results, yes, he’s going to escalate it — he did that with every war he inherited during his first term.
But we won’t know whether past performance was an indicator of future results until he gets inaugurated and starts doing, or not doing, things.
Would I LIKE to believe he’ll be different this time? Sure.
DO I believe he’ll be different this time? I very much doubt that he will.
But we’ll start finding out in a week or so.
Even if we only go by his Cabinet picks, it looks like a resounding NO.
Donald Trump conducts the Derangement Symphony Orchestra in honor of his inauguration next week:
https://x.com/MarkSimoneNY/status/1878901656164929627
More old men, looking for young men to die for them & their crap.