It's funny to see how HN is immediately turning into reddit when anything goes political, with people downvoting and flagging replies they disagree with.
It would for sure be a blow to Russia to repatriate all those people. But the implications of forcing people to go to war.. Germany would not do that under the current government, and they should not.
Also, assuming 250k people will be teleported straight into armed forces, this will does almost nothing to the high level course of war. Sure, it will help with morals a lot, it will allow to relieve many people fighting non-stop for years now, it will possibly help slow or even stop ruzzian advance. But on the high level it won't matter because those 250k new people won't have any significant hardware to fight with. No new rockets, no new launchers, no new planes, no new radars, no new bombs, no new tanks, no new IFVs, no new AA, no new trucks even. Ruzzia has a significant edge in the amount of working military hardware and keeps a lot of stuff in reserve. To break them, in order to move at least to the 2014 borders a lot more additional military hardware would be a mandatory requirement, regardless of the human headcount.
What makes you say it's a troll baiting with conspiracy? To me it seems like a valuable talking point from game theory perspective even if it's not what children would like to hear.
How do you fight a war if every one of your citizens tries to seek refugee status in other countries?
Except that's not how it works in reality now nor ever when war happens. Ukrainian men ARE absolutely being forced to the front lines against their will because no normal man is crazy enough to go to certain death or trauma if they can avoid it.
Just look up videos on social media of Ukrainian recruiters patrolling the streets and beating men uncircuitous and dragging them in vans to take them to training centers simply because they don't want to go and fight.
My EU country who borders Ukraine is constantly having to rescue men who risk their lives crossing the border illegally in order to escape the draft.
Yeah, nobody should be forced to go to war in some rosy utopia, but how do you defend yourself in a war when nobody wants to fight?
It would for sure be a blow to Russia to repatriate all those people. But the implications of forcing people to go to war.. Germany would not do that under the current government, and they should not.
Nobody should be forced to go to war.