Posted on 03/15/2025 1:40:10 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
KYIV — Ukraine is shrinking.
The war has killed tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers. At least 5 million more have fled and live outside Ukraine, and a fifth of the country — another 5 million people — is under Russian occupation.
Ukraine’s population at independence from the Soviet Union in 1991 was over 50 million. Now just 31 million live in land controlled by Kyiv. And the number of deaths is nearly three times the number of births, according to the justice minister.
These missing Ukrainians — the ones who have fled, the dead, the occupied — have left a gaping hole in today’s Ukraine that will greatly shape what sort of country will be left when the conflict ends. A diminished population could have a major impact on the country’s economic health, political stability, ethnic makeup and ability to fight wars in the future.
As President Volodymyr Zelensky travels to the United States to meet with President Donald Trump and discuss a deal for the country’s minerals and a possible end to the war, the issue looms in the background.
Reversing the demographic decline is critical and “on par with our victory in the war, achieving a just and stable peace, membership in the E.U. and NATO, and rebuilding the country,” said Mykola Kniazhytskyi, an opposition parliament deputy.
Today, Ukraine’s population, including the areas under Russian occupation, is believed to be just under 36 million, officials say, down from roughly 41 million when the war broke out. These numbers are estimates, however, and could be much lower.
If demographic trends continue, Ukraine’s population is expected to be around 25 million by mid-century and just 15 million in 2100.
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Silly name calling. When are you moving to Russia, its population is plummeting. I wonder why after all it’s a Christian paradise.
Obviously if there is peace a lot of people will return.
They're Orthodox Christian nations so I wouldn't say that they have "western values".
And we are living in a post-Western world nowadays.
JD had pointed out already that our allies in the West are no longer sharing our values.
So if you are talking about traditional "western values" so far it's just USA and Israel (even though they are not considered to be a part of the Western world).
There are 100s of thousands of Ukrainian draft dodgers hiding all over the world. I have no idea if they will be welcomed back.
The five million under "Russian occupation" are happy to be Russian citizens and don't want go back to being part of Ukraine.
The war continues because Ukrainian nationalists want to drive those there out and seize their homeland.
What do you consider them and yourself? A neocon? Globalist? Bushie?
Ukraine was one of the poorest and most corrupt countries in Europe before the war. Many of the refugees who fled to Western Europe won’t want to return. Once they have seen Paree, how are you going to keep them down on the farm?
Their POS green cokehead is already, once again, and again and again, changing his mind on the whole thing. He wants more and lots of money and stuff.
https://x.com/i/status/1900924006561120385
Trump needs to demand he is put down and out like the sniveling snake he is.
Why are the people in the Russian Occupied Areas not going into other areas of Ukraine??
“Z” couldn’t even deal with Chicago...You know damn well he has absolutely no input into what goes down. He boasts “I’m a War President”...and that’s why he wears the same damn green shirt....just like Churchill and Truman and....well, you get the idea...
We’d be happy to solve Ukraine’s demographic crisis, by deporting 10+ million fertile, nominally Christian, hard-working “border crossers” to their country.
...and they're well aware they can be deported back.
"Poland and Lithuania to help Ukraine repatriate men of fighting age"
https://www.ft.com/content/dd1d3074-61af-4edb-9ed4-a3530158623e
"Poland's Pledge To Repatriate Conscription-Age Men To Ukraine Could Have Economic Costs"
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lidiakurasinska/2024/05/11/polands-pledge-to-repatriate-conscription-age-men-to-ukraine-could-have-economic-costs/
Simple thinking is easily debunked.
“Don’t worry - Ukraine can be repopulated with Turks, Arabs and Africans.“
Business groups are calling for this very thing.
Ukrainian soldiers would have every right to be hopping mad about this.
Your army buddies killed and then someone in Brussels, London or Davos wants to turn around and give the country over to foreigners.
Elites in the West are pure trash.
“ Silly name calling.”
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Name calling? I thought that ZEEPERS proudly wore that name as they proselytized for Zelensky, Ukraine and more American wealth to be allocated to Zelensky and crew. Or is a sense of shame developing amongst that crowd?
What I think is irrelevant. What they think is what matters.
...and as I said in Post 18, long before Victoria Nuland of the U.S. State Department and her globalists cohorts overthrew the Ukrainian government in 2014, the young in Ukraine wanted Ukraine to join the EU - not to better Ukraine but to get their EU work cards and leave. I also added images from media reports about how corrupt the country was.
If they wanted to leave before the war, what makes you think they'll want to go back during or after it?
good... don’t breed them if you can’t feed them...
Like Iraq and Afghanistan...
...Europe
...the United States...
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