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1 out of every ~200 Russians, overwhelmingly young, formerly healthy men, are now seriously wounded or dead because of Putin's ill-conceived ambitions. Christ.
For reference, the last time the US lost anywhere CLOSE to that proportion of its population in war was WW2.
And this is why the government is now restricting birth control. Need more soldiers for the grinder.
I think if they drag the war out so long that kids not even conceived today are potential soldiers, then soldiers will be the least of their problems.
It’s also about the economic impact of loosing that many people.
I don’t know of many places where polygamy is tolerated, and unless they go that route, if they lose 20% of their male population…. That’s a 20% reduction in that generation’s children too.
Granted, I wouldn’t put it past Putin/the kremlin to get single women preggo by force. Assholes.
the russians are probably doing this thinking of the time after the war. better start asap while they send so many to their death.
The US did it.
We were invading the Middle East since before I was born, and I almost signed up to get free school when I wanted to be a doctor. I would have likely treated soldiers that were still being wounded in the Middle East.
Oh, totally. Afghanistan had multiple generations tied up in it, which is horrendous.
However, the US also didn’t take nearly the losses that Russia is throwing “into the grinder” as the parent post puts it.
It's to replenish for the next war, and the next and the next.
Their birth rates are really low too 1.35 IIRC ? You need 2.1 to stay stable.
Add a million young IT guys and other that just left...
Can confirm. My graduate CS class was almost entirely young men from China. There were two or three young women from China as well. And, including myself, I think three non-international students (all of us Caucasian).
International students are very profitable for universities, and there are a lot of young Chinese men applying for them in the US. And Australia, from what I've read.
Serious brain drain.
Plenty of males in China that can take Russian brides
Both countries are way too racist for that to happen.
The mounting casualties at the front may hinder the Russian military's recruitment efforts
Haven't they been conscripting out of prisons for awhile already?
Yeah but that's volunteers to get their sentence taken away. So far they haven't forced a uniform on prisoners yet. Just distant minorities.
Maybe not even russian prisoners want to get a one way trip to the meat grinder.
Current crowd source intel says 665K:
https://lemmy.world/post/20696449
I think the pentagon’s numbers give this tally significant strength.
Not to be a downer but what is Ukraine's casualties at? I'm sure this rate of loss of Russian young men is going to kneecap population levels there but I can only imagine how screwed Ukraine's will be as well.
It's a good question. Ukraine doesn't disclose that. They're high though. There are a few estimates that vary widely and sometimes include civilian casualties. This NYT piece published today cites an unnamed American official estimating that Ukrainian casualties are "a bit more than half of Russia’s casualties, or more than 57,500 killed and 250,000 wounded." (Archive) This WSJ article from about a month ago cites an unnamed Ukrainian official putting the estimate at 80k killed, 400k wounded. (Archive)
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