{"id":3020,"date":"2024-11-28T04:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-tells-ukraine-to-look-hard-at-lowering-draft-age-in-russia-war\/"},"modified":"2024-11-28T04:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T04:35:39","slug":"us-tells-ukraine-to-look-hard-at-lowering-draft-age-in-russia-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/us-tells-ukraine-to-look-hard-at-lowering-draft-age-in-russia-war\/","title":{"rendered":"US tells Ukraine to &#8216;look hard&#8217; at lowering draft age in Russia war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is urging Ukraine to &ldquo;look hard&rdquo; at removing policy mandates that limit the nation to drafting soldiers aged 25 and up, a senior administration official told Blue Light News on Wednesday.  Instead, they&rsquo;ve suggested lowering the age to 18 which would expand their manpower in the fight against its Russian adversaries&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/international\/5013477-us-ukraine-lowering-draft-age-russia-war\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States is urging Ukraine to &ldquo;look hard&rdquo; at removing policy mandates that limit the nation to drafting soldiers aged 25 and up, a senior administration official told Blue Light News on Wednesday. Instead, they&rsquo;ve suggested lowering the age to 18 which would expand their manpower in the fight against its Russian adversaries&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3021,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3021"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}