Russia’s population has been dropping for years. With Putin’s war underway, skilled workers are fleeing Russia, and now with his draft, younger men are also fleeing. Those that don’t stand a good chance of being killed in Ukraine. An estimated additional one quarter million people fled Russia just in the past week.
The result is Russia is destroying its own future. If his war is successful (seems unlikely), he’d acquired tens of millions of Ukrainians (who hate Russia) to bolster Russia’s population.
None of this makes sense.
However, many young Russian men will still be subject to the country’s military draft, a move Koffler said could have disastrous consequences as the country battles a “demographic crisis.” Russia currently has a fertility rate of 1.5, Koffler pointed out, well below the replacement rate of 2.1 that allows a country to maintain population levels.
“Eliminating an entire segment of males, 18-55 year olds, child-producing ages, is strategically a disastrous move,” she argued. “It will have negative ripple effects not just on Russia’s military but on the future of the Russian society. It’s a tragedy for the Russian people.”
Source: Russia to give troops who surrender 10 years in prison unless they are able to flee captivity
Russia’s population pyramid – if this isn’t bad enough, Putin is making it worse in the age groups 20 through 40. Russia has no longer has a future.
Plus, Putin’s draft is going as well as everything else in Russia – that is, incompetently:
She angrily recounted numerous instances where the new recruits included students, those outside the age limit, people with serious illnesses, barbers, teachers, musicians and a single mother of two young children. Among the people swept up in the mobilization efforts, Solovyov and Simonyan recounted seeing information about draftees as old as 62 and 59 years of age.
Putin’s Top Cheerleaders Panic Over Russian Army ‘Mutiny’ (msn.com)
I regret having spent so much time watching Russian Youtubers pre-war, or occasionally watching what we now understand was RT propaganda nonsense. I have since cut off all Russian media.
