There’s one thing Ukraine needs more than US weapons: babies

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1. Insightful article. I don’t see how a sustainable future for Ukraine can be secured if it’s being depopulated at such an alarming rate.

   This is something our pro-war politicians don’t want to talk about. Human life is so cheap to them, that it can be thrown away for a proxy war that is highly likely to be lost anyway because – ironically – there won’t be enough people left to sustain the situation.

2. Finally a good article that is not a hit piece. Ukraine cant just snatch people for another year. And you warhawks keeb warriors wont ever enlist to fight for Ukraine. European leaders just want Russia weakened at the cost of Ukrainian bodies.

   It’s that simple, the war must end now.

3. This is just most of the Western World. Even Russia has this issue too, iirc Putin was trying to advertise interracial relationships to pump them numbers up.

   https://www.economist.com/china/2024/05/09/why-young-russian-women-appear-so-eager-to-marry-chinese-men

4. Disagree on babies being more important than weapons when there is no guarantees of security, with war looming around the corner people will leave if given the chance.

5. Since the war started, Ukraine’s lost 25–35% of its population, and it’s aging fast. By 2030, over 30% of the country will be elderly. Add to that the huge number of young men killed or injured in battle and a crashing birth rate, and things are looking rough. Even when the war ends, Ukraine will still be dealing with a shrinking workforce and a longterm demographic mess. No matter how you look at it, the country’s in serious trouble.

6. Those babies wont be fully cooked and ready for conscription for at least 8-12 years.

7. Apparently they have an impressive blast radius, with bonus hair trigger.

8. They violated their men’s bodily autonomy to fight, now will they force ???… (finish the sentence yourself).

9. I’d say the biggest long term problem Ukraine faces, assuming it keeps its independence and sovereignty, is that such a large percentage of Ukrainians have fled the country, and have been gone for many years now.

   And the longer refugees are gone, the more established they become in their new places, the less likely they are to return to their homeland, simply because they’ve built new homes.

   But, right now, Ukraine is fighting to preserve its sovereignty, and the right to make its own decisions… something the Kremlin is very keen on stripping from Ukraine. So until that is solved, everything else comes second. And it’s a tragedy that Ukraine is being destroyed simply because the Kremlin views Ukraine’s strategic autonomy as a threat.

10. This argument ignores the problem of overpopulation that affects the planet as a whole.

    Geopolitics isn’t just individualist statecraft.

11. There’s pretty much nothing to do about it for any developed nation with this issue. You industrialize, people have less kids.

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