[jimmygrace]

Unlike past wars, Russia simply doesn’t have the demographics to throw bodies into the line of fire. Decades of communism has drastically and dangerously slowed its birth rate below replacement level. Anyway, in the past, they have used mostly Ukrainian and Baltic bodies to throw into the line of fire.

[Antoninus]

Unlike past wars, Russia simply doesn’t have the demographics to throw bodies into the line of fire. Decades of communism has drastically and dangerously slowed its birth rate below replacement level. Anyway, in the past, they have used mostly Ukrainian and Baltic bodies to throw into the line of fire.

Sadly, Russia has one of the highest abortion rates in the world. Ukraine is also up there. Good luck waging a war--defensive or offensive--with few young men.