• Keeponstalin@lemmy.world
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    16 days ago

    Yeah I agree. I was no way defending the use of child soldiers. It’s done via coercion for better access to food and water. I was trying to focus on the underlying cause, being the genocide in Yemen, as the root cause. As in the best way to end the use of child soldiers, along with all the other deaths of children in Yemen such as starvation, is to first end the genocide. Without addressing the root problem, it won’t resolve, because the underlying material conditions have not changed.