Ukraine is expected to drop to 30 million by 2050. It was at nearly 52 million people back in 1991 just before the collapse of USSR.
I’m sure Ukraine has suffered devastating losses, refugees and destruction. Who said they didn’t.
I was in Japan. The traditional wooden structures sprinkled around are because we destroyed everything else. Today they are a modern affluent society. Same for Germany. Same for much of Russia and Eastern Europe. Same for Hiroshima.
Just reality.