Russia - threadbanned users in OP

Nice to hear the Russians squealing for once

I have a slightly grimer projection for the Russians. Not only do I see the Russian Federation disintegrating into *at best* a vassal of possibly China, but given the demographic timebomb they already had long before this war, and the severe damage they have done to a huge chunk of what would have been the next generation: in our lifetimes we might actually see a sovereign nation die of old age.

This is been a danger in a lot of the Western world too, due to lowering birth rates. But there was always at least a decent chunk of births happening, and people had a knack of wanting to continue live in the Western world, not to mention immigration adding to that number too. But with Russia, we have a mass flight of youth, the mass death of the same, and a depressed aging population that face a future where there will be noone left to run their country.

This is is why they stole children from Ukraine. This is part of why they are looking for “Russians” to add to their number and kick off conflicts like this war. They face a future where there might be barely anyone left to bury them when the time comes.

It would be great to see them die off. An awful nation, contributes nothing but pain.

It's hardly likely, never underestimate the basic sex drive of humans. When this war is over, Putin's regime is dissolved and some everyday normality brought to Russian society, then they'll have a post war baby boom. Lie back and do your duty for Russia etc.

Meanwhile Jacob Rees-Mogg is chiding the UK public for having less than six kids per family. It doesn't seem to have occurred to either him or the other dickhead Putin to structure society and the economy so that having more kids becomes a realistic and affordable option for those that would like to do so.

Sadly something new will take its place.It is a zero sum game(I fear)

We have economic progress,ecological catastrophism and a kind of socio political equilibrium .* Perhaps we will get the march of socio political progress resuming one of these decades but see how far we have/are falling back these past times.

Never again? Seems not.

*meaning 1 step forward ,1 step back

Bringing the war to the Russian public......

https://twitter.com/NOELreports/status/1685538124728803328?s=01

False flag to drum up support for the war?

Kamikaze Russian tank idiot gets lucky.

And a huge problem with the pyramid scheme they've been pushing the last 60 or 70yrs. Constant economic growth is not possible without constant population growth and neither is consistently possible, feasible or desirable for that matter. Its all going to hit the wall at some stage.

Maybe, but this attack came just after they raised the conscription to 30.

The Tories torpedoed it for themselves when both partners working turned from an option to a necessity. Add in the ridiculous cost of living, and the cost of property itself and you have a recipe for small families. And that's before you factor in childminding, which can't be provided by the state because that yould be (shock, horror) "socialism", and would close off a means for the private sector to screw money out of hard-working families.

As for Putin, well if Russia provided more services to its people and less profits to oligarchs, maybe more Russian women would be having babies.

Just shows what drones can do for tanks. It literally gave the Russian commander of that tank eyes in the sky, told them what direction enemy was coming from, how many vehicles, what types, it told him no other enemies in the vicinity other then them.The Russian tank really went at the Ukrainians there and came back for more, he didn't let up. Watching the video the Ukrainian vehicles bunched up they were lucky nó Russian helicopter picking them off, saying that the Russian tank done some serious damage there. Looking at the Ukrainian vehicles I wonder was there special forces etc in them as you see in a lot of videos them using these to get around Russian positions and attack it fast. Or were they newer recruits going into action for 1st time. Or maybe they weren't expecting 1 Russian tank to keep coming back and attacking them the way it did.