{"id":273993,"date":"2023-10-02T07:33:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T07:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273993"},"modified":"2023-10-03T06:40:17","modified_gmt":"2023-10-03T06:40:17","slug":"the-average-age-of-ukraines-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=273993","title":{"rendered":"The Average Age Of Ukraine’s Army"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moon of Alabama \u2013 Oct 2, 2023<\/strong><\/h1>\n

Ben Wallace, the former Secretary of State for Defence of the UK, writes<\/a> in the Telegraph<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Putin is desperately grasping at the final two things that can save him \u2013 time and the splitting of the international community. Britain can do something about both. We must help Ukraine maintain its momentum \u2013 and that will require more munitions, ATACMSs and Storm Shadows. And the best way to keep the international community together is the demonstration of success.<\/p>\n

Ukraine can also play its part. The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40.<\/strong> I understand President Zelensky\u2019s desire to preserve the young for the future, but the fact is that Russia is mobilising the whole country by stealth. Putin knows a pause will hand him time to build a new army. So just as Britain did in 1939 and 1941, perhaps it is time to reassess the scale of Ukraine\u2019s mobilisation.<\/p>\n

Let us not pause for one day. Let us see this through. The world is watching to see if the West has the resolve to stand up for our values and the rules-based system. What we do now for Ukraine will set the direction for all of our security for years to come.<\/p>\n

Think for a moment what the aside insert “The average age of the soldiers at the front is over 40<\/strong>” really means. Can Storm Shadows change that fact?<\/p>\n

Roland Popp @RoPoppZurich – 5:43 UTC \u00b7 Oct 2, 2023<\/a><\/p>\n

Sollte stimmen, was Wallace da \u00fcber das Durchschnittsalter an der ukrainischen Front sagt, 40 Jahre, dann sind die schlimmsten Mutma\u00dfungen \u00fcber Verluste weit \u00fcbertroffen worden.
\nParaguay 1870.<\/p>\n

Translated from German by Google
\nIf what Wallace says about the average age on the Ukrainian front is true, 40 years, then the worst assumptions about losses have been far exceeded.
\nParaguay 1870.<\/p>\n

Paraguayan War – Casualties of the war<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Paraguay suffered massive casualties, and the war’s disruption and disease also cost civilian lives. Some historians estimate that the nation lost the majority of its population.<\/p>\n

Ukraine ain’t there yet. But looking at pictures of Ukrainian soldiers at the front Wallace seems to be right. If you are forty or above are you really still able to run, react and fight like when you were twenty? I am not.<\/p>\n

The young Ukrainians are gone. They either have fled from Ukraine or are wounded, disabled or died. You can not mobilize what is no longer there.<\/p>\n

A huge loss that will forever haunt that country.<\/p>\n

End this war now!<\/p>\n

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A report appeared in the Financial Times recently that spoke of a 71-year-old who was being trained as a tank crewman. He had volunteered but the fact that he had even been accepted points to a dire shortage young Ukrainian men. Most have either fled the country or been wounded, killed or captured by the Russians <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":145,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,91,116],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Behind_The_News","category-russia","category-ukraine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/145"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273995,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273993\/revisions\/273995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}