They are a nation state run by an unchallenged leader. They can afford to throw up to 10-20 million people into the meat grinder by the end of the war.
The only downside is that their male to female ratio is already 87 men to 100 women.
That ratio is only going to get worse till the end of the war.
None of that has an impact on Putin.
The war goes on.
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Pretty much. Putin can't afford to lose this war and the only group that cares less for Russian lives than Russians themselves are their leaders. While long-term demographic collapse is definitely a W for the West, Putin throwing away their irreplacable Soviet inheritance of heavy weaponry is the real
That and 'someone' (
) blowing up the natural gas pipeline doesn't allow Germany to throw Russia an economic lifeline when its over (you know they would have, day +1).
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