I'd like to make a point, express sympathy really, for the many young Ukrainian men who escape to anonymous destinations like Bali, Brazil or Bangkok, but for poorer families Poland or Romania, and attempts to repatriate and conscript them.
The Ukrainian govt is not the CIA. It conspires with other governments to build a secret, possibly extrajudicial, program, whose purpose is to extradite Ukrainian citizens of military age who have illegally left Ukraine to escape mobilisation.
This is what we knew as an "extraordinary rendition and detention program"", ie without legal process, a draft-dodger or deserter living abroad is identified and captured by the foreign govt or Ukrainian vigilante group, and transferred back to the custody of the Ukrainian authorities, for detention, interrogation and reintegration into the defense forces - doubtless the front line, to encourage the others.
That makes every case repatriated back into Ukrainian society a potential time bomb, surely a great threat to morale.
Perhaps these boys believe the stories that Ukraine employs schools of giant white drone balloons to patrol its border. There are many of these boys who've escaped and are here amongst us. They stand up when they see you, ready to flee, and a haunted look crosses their face.
It can only be the Washington Neo Conservatives who want this war.
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