Russia has a population issue complicating its expansionist ambitions. The Ukraine war may make matters much worse for them. Some open source statistics showing the population issue before the Ukraine war of military expansion.

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1. Now do migration patterns.

2. -680 000

3. Russia has been below birthrate sustainability for over 40 years. They were already so far down the death loop it was hopeless prior to the start of this war which has and will wipe out what little youth remains. I recall Putin sex rallies back in the early 2000’s trying to combat the problem. This doesn’t even include the brain drain youth that already left. You’re witnessing the final flailing death throes of a failed state. Russia has already begun its journey to irrelevancy, and this will only accelerate the inevitable.

4. Well done, Putes! You really did play yourself.

5. Especially if you consider that this war has created a spike in the number of deaths of young men. Many of these young men would have used their productive years to support a family. I’m sure the expense of war will be partly made up by cutting expenses for medical care, which will create some long-term issues as well. Either way, this will only exacerbate a long-term problem for Russia. Perhaps one of Putin’s goals was raising the population through conquest, but even that is still up in the air. Putin would have to win the war, and the latest reports from Avdiivka are not encouraging.

6. What was with the sudden spikes down and up with the death rate around 1960?

7. That’s why russians are kidnapping Ukrainian children.

8. Economic Brillance. Russia’s population crash is mitigating the economic crash.

9. I hope they accelerate their own manufactured genocide

10. I have heard it explained to me that due to the demographic issues faced by Russia, Putin knew this was Russia’s last roll of the dice. That he knew they had to expand and absorb populations elsewhere to stave off the collapse. And the time was running out.

11. They lost 1 million during Covid-19 pandemic and didn’t care in a slightest.

12. Putin doesn’t give a shit about things like this. So, this statistic has zero impact on reality.

13. Imagine their under reported covid deaths don’t help either

14. Sadly i presume it doesnt look any better in Ukraine either

15. Oddly today as I saw that they supposedly lost 860 personnel today ( [https://www.minusrus.com/en](https://www.minusrus.com/en)) , I wondered how did that impact thier population today with all things considered. I was shocked to see this: “According to our estimations, daily change rates of Russian Federation population in 2023 will be the following: 5,087 live births average per day (211.95 in an hour) 5,547 deaths average per day (231.13 in an hour)”([https://countrymeters.info/en/Russian_Federation#:~:text=According%20to%20our%20estimations%2C%20daily,day%20(231.13%20in%20an%20hour)](https://countrymeters.info/en/Russian_Federation#:~:text=According%20to%20our%20estimations%2C%20daily,day%20(231.13%20in%20an%20hour))

    So they are basically loosing 500 people a day and I use this term loosely ‘normally’. To make it easy assume half are male and thats 250 males a day negative. Add the 860 losses today (if in fact that was all KIA) and thats 1110 males negative today. If that happened everyday for a year ( wishful thinking) that would be over 400k males negative in a year .

16. Muscovite orcs natural selection…. the Chinese will slip in and fill the gap. Muscovite dna will soon be extinct…. well done putin. You will achieve what we all hoped for.

17. I doubt the war will make that much difference, not many Russian women dying in Ukraine.

18. thats what always had me scratching my head, Russia already lacks the young population needed to cultivate the land they already have, why do they need Ukraine. You just need to look at the eastern Chinese/Russian boarder towards the coast to see the problem. On the Chinese side every square inch of land is cultivated, on the Russian side nothing. Other examples like the Kuri islands seized from Japan during WWII. The Russians recently tried to build a new railway line to replace the decaying remains of the pre-war Japanese train system, and they never finished it. There is a brand-new train line going from no-where to no-where, surrounded by the rotting remains of Japanese factories that have long gone the way of the dodo under Russian management.

19. Meanwhile RT was promoting vaccination back in Russia during the pandemics, its western versions were riddled with antivax propaganda. Many were convinced by their own russian branded conspiracy theories that they rather believed the propaganda going in other countries to be true rather than their mistrusted government. The result is spectacular

20. Decriminalization of domestic violence hasn’t helped with family unity as much as you’d think /s

21. Which is why they stole 100s of thousands of children and even resettled adults without identification of any kind. Or put them in filtration camps to be relocated to populate the boonies. It’s so clear what they are doing. I just think it’s hard for some to believe because it is so damn evil.

22. If they’re not born, they can’t send them to war.

23. You need to listen to the Joe Rogan podcast #1921 with Peter Zeihan. Very interesting conversation about birthrates, economics, and politics of other nations… specifically Russia and China.