Thank you. Sometimes it feels like shouting into the wind!

But yea, two things can indeed be true.

When your country is under invasion and you have a legally mandated conscription … of course people will be scared and try to evade it.

But they try and hand wave over the fact that Russia also does it and much worse, especially when they don’t need to because they’re fighting an offensive war (badly).

America had the draft and so did Britain. Was that decried as abhorrent?