HN truncated your link, so All I could see is https://united2… and thought you were linking to something like https://youtu.be/pl0WGFsY-6g

Which is still grown men abducting people in broad daylight, just not in Ukraine.

Ah- the headline is "Russia Starts Issuing Draft Notices at Airports to New Citizens and Returning Expats".

Basically the Russian's are conscripting people flying in to airports, both regional and international. With an added nuance of racism against non-Slavs.

Why would you assume that's somehow more palpable? Is there a competition I'm not aware of?

And my current EU country would also draft me by force after I applied and got citizenship, which is why I don't do it. Sure, unlike Russia or Ukraine, I wouldn't be sent to fight in a war (for now), but many countries have mandatory conscription for their male citizens.

So there's nothing special or noteworthy about Russia's conscriptions of its own naturalized citizens, especially given its at war, so I don't get the point you were trying to make with that article you shared.

Did you assume that naturalized citizens would somehow be spared obligations of military service just because they weren't born there? That's not how citizenship works.