• eran_morad@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      A shame that so many of you will die for nothing, all because of one madman. Your country will never fully recover from this demographic damage.

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      11 months ago

      They can do that, but without proper training losses will go up. Even this is mental. Right now Russia is at something like 700k boys being born in a year. This is completely unsustainable over years. Especially with a lot of young people having fled conscription.

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        11 months ago

        It was unsustinable even before war with rising death, emmigration. All eastern Europe suffers from that, and what Cosovo conflict caused to ex-Chechoslovakia (did you ever wonder why so many pornstars came from here?), would happen to Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. And it would be particularly damaging to Russia, a country that spans across 8 timezones yet having half the people US have. There’s many ghost cities already, and I can imagine a lot more would die off, and with them the last industry this country inherited from USSR would die too. It’s a national sepuku. In ten years this place would resemble New Vegas, with everything concentrated in the capital and nothing everywhere else.