The sick, lying bastard, glibly insisting that Ukraine sacrifice its youth on the west's behalf. And war criminal Campbell and Rory Stewart with his nervously-grinning chimp face just lap it up. So utterly repulsive. Watch here from round 55:50 (Ukraine discussion starts 40:50 if you want the full punishing dose of idiotic propaganda & lies):
Ukraine should have mobilized all men and women – ex-UK defense minister Ben Wallace has argued that Vladimir Zelensky should have conscripted everyone 18 and older and sent them to be trained in Western Europe Ukraine should have mobilized all men and women – ex-UK defense minister
Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky should have introduced mass conscription and mobilized all men and women without sparing the younger generation, former British Defense Secretary Ben Wallace has said.
Following the escalation of the Ukraine conflict in 2022, Zelensky declared martial law and a general mobilization. However, due to heavy losses on the battlefield and a shortage of troops, Kiev later passed a number of new conscription laws, toughened penalties for draft evasion, started recruiting prisoners, and lowered the conscription age from 27 to 25 and in a bid to refill the ranks of the military.
Nevertheless, the Ukrainian army has continued to experience shortages, prompting Kiev’s Western backers, primarily the US, to pressure the Ukrainian government to lower the conscription age to 18 and up.
Speaking on ‘The Rest Is Politics’ podcast earlier this week, Wallace, who served as the UK’s defense minister from 2019 to 2023, argued that Zelensky should have called up all men and women from the start.
“I’ve always had a question for Zelensky: Why didn’t you mobilize your people? In 1939, we mobilized the men. And in 1940, we passed the Women in War Act. We mobilized the women,” Wallace said, referring to Britain’s conscription policies during World War II.
“Zelensky took a view that he was going to preserve the 18 to 28-year-olds, so it’s not a mass conscription,” the former defense minister said, arguing that instead, the Ukrainian leader should have mobilized everyone and “asked Europe to train them because that is not a hard ask.”
After that, Wallace argued, that Ukrainians could have returned home and “put their helmets under the bed… and go back to work” to be called up when they are needed.
The US has also pressured Kiev to lower the draft age to 18, but so far to no avail. Several Ukrainian outlets, as well as some Russian diplomats, have speculated that Zelensky is keeping that move as a last-ditch bargaining chip.
Moscow believes that the conflict is a Western-led proxy war against Russia, which the West intends to wage “to the last Ukrainian.” Last month, Russian Defense Minister Andrey Belousov said Ukraine has lost 1 million servicemembers to death and injury since February 2022, with more than half of that number coming in 2024 alone. Tell your story; Ask a question; Interpret generously http://storybythethroat.wordpress.com/tell-ask-listen/
Re: Ben Wallace - Ukraine wrong in wanting to 'preserve' its 18-28 year olds
As was said elsewhere .. they don't care about Ukraine. How can someone as significant as ex-Secretary of UK Defence be so delusional?
Think about the essentials .. it takes one year to properly train a conscript, I am told. This implies they know what will happen by (say) Feb 2026 with Russian offensive.
Sorry, I could only take less than 5 min of this delusionality and evil disregard for Ukrainian lives .. nevermind Ruskie lives. My bad : ).
Re: Ben Wallace - Ukraine wrong in wanting to 'preserve' its 18-28 year olds
Fair do's. I managed about the same then went to the transcript. Always interested to see how people look when they're shamelessly lying though - I don't think there's any way he doesn't realise what he's saying is complete BS meant to hoodwink & deceive. The little smug grin gives it away for me... I think he enjoys wheeling out all these whoppers and making ppl swallow them. At one point he accuses Putin of doing the same: saying something you know is untrue and also know the person you're telling it to knows it's untrue, but forcing them to act like it is true as a power play. That's what politicians and spooks do with the media - stretch credulity past breaking point, knowing that they have to go along with it or lose their position & privileges. Applies to the general population to the extent that they also have a stake in the system.
That cult-like adoration of that fucking podcast baffles me. I hear various people go on about it like it's Herman and Chomsky talking to Michael Parenti every episode instead of the war criminal and the Rory the Tory.
Any journlists worth their salt would have been calling this bullshit out so clearly they didn't. The Brits have come out of this proxy war looking like a caricature of the imperial era. Utterly dishonest, deranged and despicable.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.