[Polybius]

Rattle that saber, Putin, and imagine that you matter. The Chinese know that Russia is on the way to being extinct, and they have plenty of people who will move in on your territory. You are marked for the “ash heap of history,” in the prescient words of Ronald Reagan.

Nukes are the only way the Russians can keep China at bay.

Russia Losing Battle in Population Growth to Disease, Low Birth Rates

[ME-262]

Others in the government and academia have pinned their hopes of stemming Russia's population decline on increased migration into Russia. Specifically, they would like to see the legal, regulated migration of well-educated Russians and Russian speakers from other former Soviet States to regions in Russia where they are deemed most needed.

Time to tell the family "Let's pack up and leave this free and temperate country the bosses back in the motherland deem some more warm bodies needed in Siberia!.... Seventy Below with no power or fuel ain't so bad if you're thanklessly enduring it for the future emergence of a glowing socialist/humanist utopia in some generation to come... Right?"