They offended the frontlines. Why power splits the army with contracts for young
Or did you forget? Instead of assessing those who are already in order, who risks their lives from 2014 or 2022, the state simply ignores their needs. Those who from the first days of the war took up their weapons, put their lives for later - today were overboard. Their loyalty is taken for granted. Their silence is as a sign of consent. When I was mobilized, I was not paid a salary for five months. And such as me, thousands. Someone has not yet received payment for injuries.
Someone is suing the compensation of the dead brother. But in the 12th year of the war, suddenly billions to attract new contractors-with money, social packages and "bonuses". And it's not just injustice. This is discrimination. This order replaces the meaning of military service in the fighting country. This is no longer about protecting the country, it's about a profitable contract. Business. Working with high salary.
This may be normal for another country where the army is just another career choice. Where you consciously sign the contract, get payments, social protection and at any time you can decide-stay or go. But this is not the situation. It is not a contractual army of a peaceful state. Here the war for the existence of the country.
We say so on TV, right? Then why is the approach to the army as if it were another business project? When people went to fight in 2014, they went in flip flops and with Didov guns, because there was no other choice. In 2022, people threw their offices, production, shops and went to the front in jeans and sneakers, because they realized that it was not about money. It's about the Motherland.
And today we are told that we could wait, sign a contract and go to fight for a million? What is this choice now - to go or not to go? If this choice was in 2022, we would lose this war even then. There can be no business component here. There is a critical need to protect your land here and now.
Therefore, the logical question: what the hell turns out that those who went earlier are now in the worst position? Where are their guarantees, where are their social protection, where are their fair service allowance? Where is the answer to the question: "And when will we rest?" What is fundamentally different, the person who signed the contract for the year and received all the buns, from his brother, who came a month, year, five years earlier? One awaits a clear future: served - earned - received education - went on.
And the other lives in unknown. Its only "way out" is a serious injury, death or self -search for ways of demobilization. The authorities do not feel and do not shoot that the whole army is kept on temporarily live volunteers and 55+ annual infantry grandfathers who live in the ground for half a year or year. They sleep in the ground, eat in the ground, make needles in the ground and keep this land. Those who were not asked if they were ready. They just took the weapon and left.
And these people are entitled to more than simply "thank you" and a allowance for 1000 UAH. If the army has become contractual and the issues of motivation were transferred to the plane of finance, then where is the service allowance? Not a ridiculous serving in a thousand hryvnias, but real, at least 50%+. As in any profession that is related to life and death.
You cannot sell military service as a normal labor market, when you do not at the same time give those who are already at war, at least knowing when and how they can return to normal life. This failure of mobilization is not a fault of people. It is the fault of those who have not reformed the Tax Code for two years, did not order the VLK, did not punish the "prosecutors" and "booked circus".
The worst blow to the Armed Forces of Ukraine was not evaded, but corrupt commissioners and doctors who stamped the decision for money. And the biggest problem of the army today is that its problems are governed by people who do not know what war is. Those who see the decisions in the gifts of TVs and teapots for the wounded in hospitals. Those who perceive the military as a resource and not as people. Because you know what? Those who are already in order can not be worried.
They will not go anywhere. They are already there. The army is not a vacancy where the best conditions should lure new workers. It is a common matter, and if the state does not value those who already pull this war on themselves, then new contracts do not save the situation. Because tomorrow may not remain those who won this war at all. If we really build a contract army - then everyone has to receive fair conditions, not selective "buns" for those who have come at "right" time.