>> People are literally being grabbed off the street and sent to die in storm troop units. Massive corruption, the main method of protection of which is that those who fight against it (or all their male relatives) are simply sent to die.
This description sounds suspiciously similar to the situation in Russia for any male of fighting age or anyone who fights against corruption. I suppose a difference being that one country is forced to throw all its resources at stopping an invasion, and the other country is taking all its young men off the street simply to invade its neighbor.
>This description sounds suspiciously similar to the situation in Russia for any male of fighting age or anyone who fights against corruption
That is factually not true. There is no forceful conscription in Russia and generally relatives of those who fight corruption doesn't discriminate against.
>throw all its resources at stopping an invasion
>its resources
>resources
Do you mean "violently, under the threat of murder, send tens of thousands of people to horrible die against their free will for the sake of the dictator's political ambitions"?
This is if we call what is happening there by its proper names, and do not consider people as "resources" of the dictator.
This description sounds suspiciously similar to the situation in Russia for any male of fighting age or anyone who fights against corruption. I suppose a difference being that one country is forced to throw all its resources at stopping an invasion, and the other country is taking all its young men off the street simply to invade its neighbor.