• theoriginalcows@lemmings.world
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      It is interesting to think about how all the resources spent attacking Ukraine could’ve been spent improving life for the every day Russian.

      They would probably be a lot happier.

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        If every country invested in the health and education of their people instead of their military there would be no need for war to begin with.

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    Restrictive laws to try to force the population to have more children… Where have we seen this before?

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      Depopulation has been an issue in Russia for some time. At one point they created a holiday for everyone to stay home from work and fuck, though I think that was a regional thing.

      I would love to halve the human population, but the economic situation is going to be horrific for decades as we figure out how to adjust.

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      Headline isn’t wrong though. Population is definitely getting smaller, and it’s the young dying.

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      Depopulation was an issue a decade or more before the war. Which makes the meat grinder even harder to understand.

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      What could that be, I wonder?.. Ah, I know, might be all those working and studying women that abandon their sacred duty to repopulate the Motherland. Definitely not the trenches in foreign countries where the men are dying…

      Edit: typos.

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        Nah bro, it’s all the birth control chemicals women are pissing out and then that water gets recycled, drank by the men, turning them into little soyboy cucks that can’t get their little putin up unless they’re watching those androgynous kpop boy bands

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    For someone so keen on getting Russia back to the “golden age,” maybe Putin should have put more effort on listening to the people.