In its efforts to subjugate separatist areas of eastern Ukraine, the government Kiev has reinstated conscription. One would think that if the new regime in Kiev enjoyed widespread support, then volunteers would be flocking to the armed forces to carry out the state’s as-yet-unrealized fiats in the eastern region of the nation. Given that Russia has conscription also, I don’t mention this to single-out Ukraine, but to illustrate a more general point about how the necessity of conscription is helpful in exposing the true lack of support that a great many regimes enjoy. Refusal to be conscripted is a democratic act. That is, it is a true political act that attempts to nullify a government violation of civil liberty.
Ukraine Raises Army of Slaves to Fight for Freedom
