Losses

Here's a different take on Putin's despicable war against Ukraine: Russia's losses go beyond those caused by global sanctions (both financial loss and public revulsion). The loss of young lives will be felt.

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According to President Zelensky, 31,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in Ukraine. Even before the war, their population was declining by 100,000/year. They've been in that "demographic winter" for years. 

Twenty-thousand Russian villages have been abandoned Another 36,000 have fewer than ten  inhabitants. They will be next. 

"If the Russians turn out to have no stomach for this fight, it will probably be for the simple fact that the country does not have enough men to spare. The majority of those poor young men killed for Russia’s honour will be their mother’s only son, in many cases their only child . . ."

from Breakpoint

(cont'd tomorrow)