While the US-EU establishment continues to tell us Ukraine must be defended against Russia at all costs, legions of the country's young men are abandoning the country -- dreading the prospect of being thrown into the West's proxy-war meat-grinder, and convinced their best future lies somewhere else. Last week, the Telegraph reported that nearly 100,000 Ukrainian men between 18 and 22 have left in the past two months -- a force well larger than the 70,000 soldiers in then entire UK army.  

The surge springs from Ukraine's recent relaxation of wartime restrictions on foreign travel by the country's men. Effective August 22, men between 18 and 22 are now allowed to leave Ukraine. Many are choosing to do something much more ambitious than a weekend getaway, instead applying for asylum or other forms of protection in various European countries, where they're taking up residence and looking for employment. According to German TV outlet DW, one of their top choices is increasingly Germany, where the weekly pace of arrivals by young men has grown from a relative trickle of 100 into a torrent of 1,000.