cannon fodder

However, he says, they should not be presumed to be cannon fodder - adding such a characterisation is “Ukrainian bravado”.

“I’m kind of used to my identity being cannon fodder,” Bennet says in a recent Zoom interview.

The Go8 has called the proposed laws "draconian", while others accused the government of "wilfully weakening" the economy and of using international students as "cannon fodder in a poll-driven battle over migration".

And the Rohingyas fear that is the reason they are being targeted again - to be cannon fodder in a war the junta seems to be losing.

In a video, they pleaded for help, saying that other inmates were trying to get them to leave their cells and were going to use them "as cannon fodder".