• PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Russia has like 500 million people, they could send 499 million to their deaths and they would be fiiiiiine.

    Most of their economy is oil and gas extraction which doesn’t require a very large labor force. They can just outsource exploration to Europeans corporations anyway.

    • Sadbutdru@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      No, their population peaked in 94 at about 150M. They definitely have a serious population/demographic crisis. Arguably it’s one of the reasons Putin decided now was the moment to escalate in Ukraine, before it’s too late. Also why they’re taking Ukrainian children.