yes but for #russia the attrition is people, and for #ukraine the attrition is drones
it's not that if you get an "F" at university you get sent to the frontlines, it's that if you don't bribe your professor to get a good grade you get sent to the frontlines
there is also a quota of employees placed on businesses for drafting into frontline service
businesses have responded by "hiring" people to immediately send to the frontlines
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no argument, i did not phrase it effectively
what i intended to say is that ukraine values human life, while russia is a sterling example of not valuing human life
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Russia also seems indifferent to the population bottlenecks created by their wasteful military practices.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/24/russia-ukraine-birth-rate-fertility-rate-war-women-children-demographics-economy.html
https://www.codastory.com/armed-conflict/teens-making-drones-russias-demographic-collapse/
https://geographical.co.uk/news/why-russias-demographic-decline-could-threaten-its-future-power
https://www.iwm.at/publication/iwmpost-article/the-coming-age-of-population-wars
It stagnates their economy & leads to depopulation. What family chooses to have children destined to become cannon fodder?
@michaelgemar @benroyce @TimFinnerty @pgiulan @anneapplebaum
It's a reminder of the real agenda behind the natalism of White Supremacy & Christian Nationalism: Warfare.
As Gwynne Dyer points out in his documentary "War" every imperialist regime begins with removing the civil rights of women.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOox7MHR9Xw
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zH_DbVqFp5c&pp=0gcJCUACo7VqN5tD
It's to supply bodies for wars of conquest.
They ignore the fact that nuclear wars or hybrid wars don't care about demographic policies.
@Npars01 @michaelgemar @benroyce @TimFinnerty @pgiulan @anneapplebaum I've been thinking lately how the Trump immigrant detentions facilities have a lot in common with Serbian rape camps.
@Npars01 @benroyce @TimFinnerty @pgiulan @anneapplebaum I've read that Russia has about half the population it should have due to all the wars and killing there. Stalin didn't care either.
One thing that postwar Russia did right, given they were short of men: unconditional state child support for unmarried women. The surviving heroes had a lot of fun and Russia had a baby boom.
Nations that did not do that had a lot of women emigrating. Russia wouldn't allow that.
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