Faulty premise. Russia isn’t the 1939 Soviet Empire. If Russia had such vast manpower reserves they wouldn’t be losing territory in the south due to having to shift manpower to Adviinka. They may have more manpower than Ukraine but the notion that they have time on their side when they are fighting a war on Ukrainian territory is about as accurate as saying the Americans could wait out the Vietnamese.
Let’s talk reality about Russias so called ability to maintain an attritional position in a foreign country
Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine - Business Insider
"Addressing the World Russian People's Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.
"Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children," Putin said.
"Let us preserve and revive these excellent traditions. Large families must become the norm, a way of life for all of Russia's people. The family is not just the foundation of the state and society, it is a spiritual phenomenon, a source of morality."
"Preserving and increasing the population of Russia is our goal for the coming decades and even generations ahead. This is the future of the Russian world, the millennium-old, eternal Russia," Putin continued.
Putin's remarks come amid decades of falling birth rates in Russia that its invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent economic fallout have only made worse.
In October, the UK's Ministry of Defence reported that Russia has likely amassed up to 290,000 killed or wounded soldiers in the war against Ukraine.
Since coming into power 24 years ago, Putin has tried to boost Russia's birthrate by introducing a range of government incentives for those who have children, including payouts for families who have more than one child.
But the measures have had little to no impact, with figures from Rosstat, Russia's federal-statistics service, putting the Russian population at 146,447,424 as of January 1, lower than it was in 1999 when Putin first became president, Le Monde reported.
"Russia lacks workers," Alexei Raksha, a demographer who previously worked at Rosstat, told AFP in February. "It's an old problem, but it has gotten worse due to mobilization and mass departures," he said.
Russia's birth rates have been falling for decades, and the war in Ukraine has made it worse.
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when they hear you can walk and chew gum at the same time
