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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I have read a lot about Russia's demographic problems and this video summarizes a lot of that information:
There is obviously a lot of information that you have to take at face value to accept the premise... I don't think many people here have the time or resources to fact check it all. I suspect the facts are correct, but I guess you could argue the conclusions.
Anyway, it does explain the question of why Russia is making this move now. The person making the video said that this war will be the last major conventional war Russia can wage unless they somehow fix their demographic problems, which likely won't be for a few generations. Keep in mind this was posted during the military build up and not after the war began.
Edit: After re-watching, the later part of the video was from before the invasion, but the first part was obviously after.
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Russia does have huge demographic problems. To tackle those there have been many government programs to help young mothers, families with children and such. There's also a lot of promotion of family values. In a park where my family walks there are pictures of families with 3+ children. It goes to extent that my wife, as a mother of two, received roughly $5000 in government support even though both our kids have US citizenship along with Russian citizenship and their birth certificates are issued by USA in Houston, Texas