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by bebe9494i45 hours ago |

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by zulban5 hours ago|

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No need to put down men to talk about how awesome this women's pilot team sounds.

by delichon5 hours ago|

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From a military perspective, fertile women are also useful for producing more soldiers, logistics workers, and taxpayers, making males preferrable draftees where their warfighting qualities are similar.

Russia has suffered ~1.4M casualties in Ukraine. If around half of those were fertile women it would increase the rate of their current demographic collapse by several percentage points.

by derektank5 hours ago|

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Also, men are just physically stronger, which makes them more effective as infantry forces. The advent of mechanical warfare and the creation of roles like pilot or sensor technician or satellite operator which don’t require physical strength have provided a lot more opportunities for women to serve effectively in conflict.

by bebe9494i44 hours ago|

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Quite opposite, if Russia drafted women, there would be a baby boom in Russia.

Based on data from US military (professionals, not draftees), female service members are very likely to get pregnant, just before combat deployment.

So drafting women is a double win, it increases number of soldiers and increases fertility.

by delichon3 hours ago|

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So when they get pregnant at the last moment their training is wasted and a soldier is lost. And if they don't get pregnant with the right timing, they get fed into a meat grinder at the front? It seems suboptimal.

And if the survival of your culture depends on forcing women to breed on fear of death, better if it doesn't.

by bebe9494i42 hours ago|

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> fertile women are also useful for producing more soldiers

It is you, who treats women as some sort of fertile prduction factories! "Military perspective" is irrelevant, it takes 18 years to raise kid.

My point is they do their duty as citizens, nobody is forcing anyone to get pregnant! I just disproved your myth that combat service somehow lowers fertility.

> they get fed into a meat grinder at the front

Ukraine is great at killing russian soldiers. If they have more soldiers (women), they would do even better job! That is what war does, it is not gender specific!