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If you’re conscripted you’re not kidnapped.
I’ve been conscripted myself. I did my years in the army. They were not a kidnapping.
If you resist a conscription done by a democratic, legal government of the country you’re living in, you’re not kidnapped; you’re caught. Call a spade a spade.
You naming it conscription instead of kidnapping doesn't mean it's not kidnapping. Talk about calling spade a spade..
Pretty sure Russia "kidnaps" (conscripts) a hell of alot more than Ukraine does.
Russia also beating Ukrainians in the occupied territories, forcing them to become Russian citizens, and then either forcing them into fighting against their own country or ship them off to some labour camp never too be seen again.
Do you think they are "free" to leave Russia?
That's a lot of assumptions to make an argument.