Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Security Council of Russia, has claimed that since the beginning of 2023, the Ministry of Defence of Russia has recruited more than 231,000 contract soldiers to the Russian army.
the lack of a draft in the united states, but in this political season, i m curious to know if you support the notion of national service, especially since part of the conversation right now is student loan debt, retiring student loan debt and the burden we put on young people when they re all educated up and ready to go into society. well, you know, that universal service, brian, is a very appealing concept, sort of a civic duty notion. it won t work. it s too big. there s too many millions of young people, you know, do you really want them out there doing trails in the national wilderness and taking care of old people, who organizes it? so, it doesn t make a lot of sense. what we re always concerned about is to ensure that the recruiting system gets out with the proper tools and inducements to get people to step forward and carry and m-4 carbine in