Putin signed a law in August creating a new required course in “Fundamentals of Security and Defense of the Motherland.”
In July, the defense ministry approved high school-age lessons on how to operate assault rifles, combat drones and hand grenades. They will be introduced across Russia next year.
Barbieri believes the drone lessons are in response to Ukraine’s extensive use of drones to disrupt and damage Russian locations.
At younger ages, children as young as seven are learning how to assemble machine guns.
“Yes, we are killing our young men, but what about their children, have we considered planning to kill them?”
Putler is preparing his „Volkssturm“ … so even he thinks, that he lost the war
I hope that is true and I hope he follows in all of Hitler’s footsteps right to the very end.
Russian child soldiers would be fuckin mind blowing, in a terrible way.
Russia still away from that. The purpose is, I think, to make training quicker once they are technically adults. If they kinda know how to operate these things, that cuts down on training time. Actually sending actual children to the front will not come that soon, because It’s… a very unpopular and desperate move. There are less unpopular and desperate moves before that.
I’d agree it’s Putin settling Russia in for a long war so training a teenager shortens the time from (adult) conscription to hitting the front.
Basically, military service for 16/17yos? I’m against it, but it’s honestly not that crazy given that Singapore, the US, and Germany allow military service at 17 with parental consent. Canada also allows people to join Military Colleges at 16. It’s unclear how parental consent will play into this in Russia.
Hits different with the desperation behind it. If you’re culturally indoctrinating your kids for war just as a standard, fine. But when your fighting men are being deleted and you pivot to this strategy it just looks bad.
Russia doesn’t have a strategy in this war except “charge”.
Hasn’t he done enough damage to the next generation is Russians?
Dictators going for children is classic move.
