Underlake
Tabletop Game Nerd
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- America
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- He/Him
The UAR recruiting former child soldiers, or training new child soldiers, is not supported in the text.
History Strikes Back (TNO/TLM ISOT into OTL)
- Thread starter StarMaker764
- Start date
- Timeline Post-1900 Supernatural
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- tno isot (isekai)
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Awkwardly Social
- Location
- California
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...there is a very very wide gulf between being "a monolithic moral order" and using child soldiers. Why are you acting like this is something that would be a "normal" thing that the UAR and Comintern is somehow unrealistically perfect for not using.
obssesednuker
Commander of 10 Million Men
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- In the Kremlin, activating Perimtr.
As I said, I can see UAR having youth groups which conduct paramilitary training with teenagers and possibly even children. In the early-years these may even have genuinely served as a program to prepare children to act as guerrilla fighters in either a combat or non-combat capacity in the event of an invasion. But I'd imagine they'd probably lapsed in the later decades when the Comintern was in absolute ascendancy and became treated increasingly more as an opportunity to learn survival skills and athletics, like the Boy/Girl Scouts (or Young Pioneers, as a more appropriate analogy). The Wamda may have encouraged some revival of the paramilitary aspects, but even that'd be partial at most. But these'd still be fundamentally defensive measures. We certainly never see the slightest indication the UAR approved of using children as offensive combatants and them reacting in utter horror when Fascists used them.
They may find themselves incidentally allied with local groups that they discover are using child soldiers, but they'd likely try to move to curtail such activities once discovered ASAP.
They may find themselves incidentally allied with local groups that they discover are using child soldiers, but they'd likely try to move to curtail such activities once discovered ASAP.
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- Location
- India
What is their plan regarding socialist parties in other countries? Or where they act as regional government like case of Kerala, tripura and bengal in india?
The whole paramilitary final defense line doesn't really make sense for a nuclear power, though. There's no situation in which the UAR has been occupied and human civilization still exists - at worst, you could imagine them being sold out by their own military but the UAR's institutions and prosperity are generally in too good of a shape for that to be realistic either.
I know we are taking about child soldiers, but apparently russia has a NUKE CULT in its military culture.
en.wikipedia.org
More info on it, there's an entire book about it from stanford university.
[https://www.sup.org/books/politics/...org/books/politics/russian-nuclear-orthodoxy)
intro to the book:
>*SINCE THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union, religion and nuclear weapons have grown immensely in significance, reaching a peak in Russian ideology and strategy. Faith has a high profile in the president's public and private conduct and in domestic and foreign policy, and it is a measure of national identity. It has also saturated Russian nuclear military-industrial complex. Each leg of the nuclear triad has its patron saint, and their icons hang on the walls of the consecrated headquarters and command posts. Icons appear on the nuclear platforms; aerial, naval, and ground processions of the cross are a routine; the military clergy provide regular pastoral care to the nuclear corps' servicemen and function as official assistants of the commanders for the work with personnel. Within each big base there is a garrison church, chapel, or prayer room. The nuclear priesthood and commanders jointly celebrate religious and professional holidays, and catechization is an integral part of the military and civilian higher nuclear education. A similar situation prevails within the nuclear weapons industry.*
>\*Supplication services and the sprinkling of holy water occur during parades, the oath of allegiance, exercises, maneuvers, space and nuclear launches, and combat duties. Nuclear priests are integrated in professional activities through the whole chain of command and join their flock during operational missions on the ground and underwater. Pilots of strategic bombers consecrate their jets before combat sorties, and icons are attached to the maps they take to the cockpit. Mobile temples accompany intercontinental ballistic missiles, and nuclear-armed submarines have their portable churches. Within the Russian military, in particular within the nuclear forces, the scope and frequency of clerical activities fostering patriotism, morale, and human reliability have made the priests almost equivalent to Soviet-era political officers. History had come full circle. In the Soviet era "red corners" were located in public places to present an iconostasis of the "new saints" of Marxism-Leninism, replacing the Orthodox icons.\* *Now, the new mythology and iconography have replaced the Soviet iconostasis with a new-old one, in which traditional Russian and newly canonized saints and warriors from Russian and Soviet history harmoniously coexist. Incrementally, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) crafted a new pantheon of military heroes and a new professional ethos emerged.*
Nuclear Orthodoxy - Wikipedia
More info on it, there's an entire book about it from stanford university.
[https://www.sup.org/books/politics/...org/books/politics/russian-nuclear-orthodoxy)
intro to the book:
>*SINCE THE COLLAPSE of the Soviet Union, religion and nuclear weapons have grown immensely in significance, reaching a peak in Russian ideology and strategy. Faith has a high profile in the president's public and private conduct and in domestic and foreign policy, and it is a measure of national identity. It has also saturated Russian nuclear military-industrial complex. Each leg of the nuclear triad has its patron saint, and their icons hang on the walls of the consecrated headquarters and command posts. Icons appear on the nuclear platforms; aerial, naval, and ground processions of the cross are a routine; the military clergy provide regular pastoral care to the nuclear corps' servicemen and function as official assistants of the commanders for the work with personnel. Within each big base there is a garrison church, chapel, or prayer room. The nuclear priesthood and commanders jointly celebrate religious and professional holidays, and catechization is an integral part of the military and civilian higher nuclear education. A similar situation prevails within the nuclear weapons industry.*
>\*Supplication services and the sprinkling of holy water occur during parades, the oath of allegiance, exercises, maneuvers, space and nuclear launches, and combat duties. Nuclear priests are integrated in professional activities through the whole chain of command and join their flock during operational missions on the ground and underwater. Pilots of strategic bombers consecrate their jets before combat sorties, and icons are attached to the maps they take to the cockpit. Mobile temples accompany intercontinental ballistic missiles, and nuclear-armed submarines have their portable churches. Within the Russian military, in particular within the nuclear forces, the scope and frequency of clerical activities fostering patriotism, morale, and human reliability have made the priests almost equivalent to Soviet-era political officers. History had come full circle. In the Soviet era "red corners" were located in public places to present an iconostasis of the "new saints" of Marxism-Leninism, replacing the Orthodox icons.\* *Now, the new mythology and iconography have replaced the Soviet iconostasis with a new-old one, in which traditional Russian and newly canonized saints and warriors from Russian and Soviet history harmoniously coexist. Incrementally, the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) crafted a new pantheon of military heroes and a new professional ethos emerged.*