That's when you send women to the front line, particularly pregnant women. The first pregnant woman PoW shown up in the front line.

NYT piece on the need to refill the rank of the lost soldiers by enlisting women. The average age of Ukrainian soldiers are around 43. Earlier they'banned teenager 16 and above from leaving the country, asking EU countries to repatriate refugee who fled the country, revising the condition of fit for service to include more people with medical condition, talk of full mobilization, to enlisting women, including pregnant woman. Now they're talking about sending new recruit to front line for "internship", ie another way of saying sending rookies to the front line untrained.

Promotional video to enlist woman.

Lindsey Graham was among the first US politician to justify sending Ukraine billion of dollars on the ground that it's US best investment, in late May.

Lindsey Graham said Russia is in for a rude awakening before the counter offensive began. With hindsight, now did he have a rude awakening instead?

In Aug, Polish PM urged US to fund Ukraine, saying Ukrainian lives are cheaper than the American.

In Sep, Elon Musk said both side should agree to truce, it's not worth throwing Ukrainian lives at the futile counter offensive. Smart people already see the writing on the wall, the fools keep deluding themselves.

In Oct, US democrat congressman Jim Costa still try to justify funding Ukraine as a "great deal", no matter how you look at it. With just 3% of annual US defense budget, degrade the Russian force by 50%. Frankly did they trust their own statistic so much?