Swedish Magazine Features 6-Year-Old Ukraine Soldier on the Cover

Among its long list of what used to be considered “ethics violations” and “moral bankruptcies,” the Ukraine is using child soldiers.

Everyone kind of knows this, just like they kind of know that the Ukraine is torturing and killing POWs. But you would expect them to downplay this, no?

Instead, the Swedish magazine DAGENS ETC featured a brave (?) 6-year-old Ukraine soldier on their cover.

You would think this would be a similar scandal to the Balenciaga child sex thing. I agree that having sex with children is not as bad as sending them to die in a war. But it’s sort of in the same category, and celebrating it as “sexy” and “cool” is in the same category.

Apparently, however, conservatives still #StandWithTheUkraine and don’t want to criticize child soldiers or even the glorification of child soldiers.

They did get on board with KONY 2012 when they were going to GET KONY, if you remember that.

Kony didn’t actually even do anything wrong, and the people who made that film were somehow involved with the State Department, which was trying to drum up an invasion of Africa for some reason.

But conservatives cared about child soldiers then.

I guess whether child soldiers are bad depends on context.

I wonder if the same is true about child porn?