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My dick would also go quite limp since even having sex feels off with such bullshit on top.

Don’t forget removing any relief for people having kids. And dissolve their quality of life. That always goes over so well in completely diminishing any chance of population growth. Just ask Kim jung un

step1.5; men fleeing to other countries to avoid war.

Think its more high house prices and low wages. But the wealthy are more concerned with making money so immigration is at an all time high meaning house prices keep going up even when wages are kept below market value and training is non existent.

And even ones that want kids take one look at the economy and their bank accounts, and decide to wait until both look better, because they want to be able to afford the kids a happy childhood. The worst thing for population growth is giving people the ability to choose when, if ever, to get kids, and an environment they don't want to have them in.

Two ways to fix that issue. Which one is used tells a lot.

also, people don't got the space or the time to fuck

Buddy, that stuff falls out of the sky. It may be more scarce in the future, but we're not going to run out.

As a dude, I wouldn't want to bring a kid into this shithole of a world either. Most of my generation doesn't, and I can see why.

I promise you, the last thing on the minds of Russian women in this moment is climate change

I’m a woman, with two kids, they’re not my biological children. I never wanted to have kids but other people are having kids and I figure why not love the kids already here? There’s plenty of kids to go around there’s no need for me to personally make a kid. If the kids are already here we should do as much as we can to make their lives good but if they’re not already here it should stay that way.

Other countries also have the problems with the birth rates, but Putin is accelerating that. Murdering and crippling his young men in a senseless war. Keeping millions of men in the army away from home, far away from their girlfriends. Pushing people to leave the country, if they can. The problem might be there without Putin, but the war is making it so much worse

Russia has a unique problem, and it is war. Just not the war in Ukraine by itself.

WWII was absolutely devastating to the Soviet Union's population. Tons of "excess females", which means there were so many men killed that women could not find a husband. The baby boom did not happen there; kinda the opposite. This affects both modern Russia and Ukraine.

Every 20 years or so, there is an "echo" of that loss in their population pyramid. It's a drop in ~~birth rates~~ new births from a relative lack of young adults starting families for part of the cycle. The echo reduces with each cycle, of course, but one of them is hitting right now. Putin is now amplifying that echo by having another war with such high losses.

Edit: clarified some wording.

I have thought long and hard about having a kid. The only positives are some happy moments, my parents getting a grandbaby, and having someone to help make sure I don't get taken advantage of when I'm old (I believe it is my financial responsibility to plan for myself but I know my brain may decline). Then I think of the negatives. The money, the loss of sleep, the loss of autonomy, the loss of time, it's just all so so much. My life would get substantially worse.

Then I think about adopting someone older than a baby, and it's an interesting idea, I don't feel a need to spread my genes, but it's the same thing. Then I think maybe adopt a teenager, it's not as long of a commitment. But by this point it's such a nasty equation of tradeoffs and I never want a child to be thought of that way. Plus, I really don't think I have the heart or patience for adopting an older child.

So the only real thing I feel like I'm missing is having someone to make sure I'm not a victim of elder abuse. I'll just try to keep getting you get friends and keep them close. I'm 33. My youngest close-ish friend is about 22. If I keep making young people my friends then hopefully if I'm in the nightmare scenario of mental decline and my spouse has passed that one of them can check up on me when we're both old. That seems less shitty than adopting a child for that reason.

alcoholism is actually thier favorite pass time.

The tankie angle is that it’s NATO’s fault. Would never have happened if mean old west hadn’t invaded Ukraine and genocided Russian-speakers who are ethnically and linguistically identical to Ukrainians but also totally different and superior but also must be defended by daddy Vladdy.

And also Ukraine is an inseparable part of Russia, especially Crimea. Khrushchev was only kidding when he gave Crimea to Ukraine, which isn’t a real country.

And the west totally broke its verbal promise that no one’s ever heard to never allow another country into NATO. But The Budapest Memorandum wasn’t worth the paper it was written on. For some reason.

You just don’t understand Russian history. Russia has a very long memory. When it comes to grievances. Theirs.

You’re just russophobic.

The beloved and benevolent putin is merely protecting the country from the overpopulation seen in the west.

So what’s the tankie angle to this?

“Sure this news is bad, but what about this non sequitur?”

Russian meat to sunflower oil pipeline