Posted on 02/17/2024 2:06:15 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Russian President Vladimir Putin is feeling the heat from a demographic crunch.
He's calling on Russians to have more babies to preserve their ethnicity, Reuters reported on Thursday.
"If we want to survive as an ethnic group — well, or as ethnic groups inhabiting Russia — there must be at least two children," Putin said at a tank factory, according to the news agency.
It's not enough just for each family to have one kid — because Russia's population would contract, Putin said, while issuing conflicting statements on how many kids families need to have.
"In order to expand and develop, you need at least three children," said Putin, per Reuters.
Russia was in a demographic crisis even before it invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
The country's population was 146.4 million at the beginning of 2023 — down from nearly 149 million in 1993, according to official statistics. However, this is up a low of around 143 million in the early 2010s.
The war is taking a toll on the population: Between 150,000 and 190,000 Russian soldiers have been killed or wounded in the war against Ukraine, the UK's Ministry of Defence wrote in an intelligence update in October.
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They have ‘em pretty quick over there too, no? Why, either man or woman can poop a kid in about three months or so. Amazing.
People forget that the strength of a nation was often measured in how many babies they had. Strength in numbers, and all that.
Maybe the Slavic overlords should have kept the agreed peace negotiation draft over a year ago.
Elnsky signed it, after all.
The blonde lush from London changed Mr. twinkle toes mind.
The poodle of Biden knew the US was using the enlisted UKR generation to agitate Russia.
Now, Twinkles military are conscripting women into the meat grinder. Demonic money changers own Elinsky. His wife shops Paris collections, while slaughtering their young for cash.
Puhleeze. This isn’t 1954. Neither is Russia representative of it.
We’re importing low IQ non whites by the millions.
Elon Musk is one other who has been saying that for years.
If they want population increases, they’d better start importing tons of Gaza refugees. They will soon be kicked out of the area by both the IDF and by Egypt, whose border walls make a mockery of the U. S. southern border.
Count me in
Where Biden opens the borders to illegal immigration, Putin assimilates the countries of the people to increase his population.
Only surpassed by the United State's level of world-wide aggression.
Where Biden opens the borders to illegal immigration, Putin assimilates the countries of the people to increase his population.
yes, change the subject
anything to take the focus off your beloved Putin
Like many parts of the world, Muslims in Russia are having babies while non-Muslims are not. Thus Russia’s Muslim population is growing at 0.6% annually, while the non-Muslim population is shrinking. On top of war casualties, hundreds of thousands fleeing to avoid being sent to fight in Ukraine, they have the highest abortion rate in the civilized world.
“You want more Russian babies start paying the parents big bucks. Money talks, everything else walks.”
Agree, SAME PROBLEM as in the West. You ‘liberate’ women, they get ‘options’, and FAR TOO MANY decide that kids are an afterthought, if even that.
If we’re going to allow women to be paid to work, then we need to also pay them to have babies (and pay enough to make it worth their while), or the race will quickly DIE OUT.
Hard to pay big bucks when the Rubel is only worth one cent. It used to be worth about 2.5 cents, almost as much as the Ukrainian Hryvania, or the Israeli ten agarot piece, but then the war and sanctions happened. He wouldn’t need more babies if he hadn’t sent so many men off to die, and so many others fled to avoid that fate.
The more accurate word is “ethnic”, defending the sovereignty of Russia, the Russian Orthodox Catholic Church, Russian traditions, and the Russian people, against particularly foreign encroachment and threats.
Russia First, sort of like “America First”.
Our Democrat leaders will do the same thing.
Once the replacement is over…
The market is an amazing thing.
If you pay X for something and you don’t get enough of it produced, try paying twice X and see what happens.
Determination gets it done.
> Maybe if he weren’t busy grinding up Slavic males. <
You beat me to it. Not that Ukraine is much better.
WW1 decimated Europe. Christians killed each other in great numbers over relatively minor things. But of course each side could tell you how right they were. Meanwhile, an entire generation was torn apart and ruined.
We are seeing the exact same thing in the Ukraine-Russia conflict, only in miniature. Craziness.
It's Zeepers and neocons that are obsessed with Russia...There an egg shortage! A banana shortage! Not enough children being born!
Meanwhile, we have attempts by a sitting President to sabotage his biggest rival. The DOJ and FBI have been weaponized. We have our own political prisoners. We had an American citizens murdered after being imprisoned in Ukraine.
Putin is largely responsible for grinding up both sides.
After his Blitz Kreig didn’t work, he shoulda just stopped.
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