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Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine (www.businessinsider.com)

submitted 11 months ago by Stamau123@lemmy.world to c/world@lemmy.world

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Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children. 
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday. 
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country's population crisis.

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.

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[-] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 22 points 11 months ago

Ah yes, the ol Zap Braningan Strategy.

Brilliant strategy involving sending wave after wave of your own men to die until the war magically wins itself.

[-] dotslashme@infosec.pub 12 points 11 months ago

To be fair, those kill bots had a kill limit, this is actually worse.

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[-] chaosppe@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Good luck solving the fertility problem. I don't think any country has managed to figure it out yet.

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[-] ganksy@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Doesn't that also equate to we've managed to kill eight of your family members?

[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

Well I wonder whose fault this was? Probably the guy who was so bloodthirsty and crazy that he actually annexed Chernobyl of all places

[-] detalferous@lemm.ee 16 points 11 months ago

So they can be sent to the front line in ten years? Putin had already screwed the pooch.

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[-] Pratai@lemmy.ca 15 points 11 months ago

Meat shields aren’t free.

[-] Seraph@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

Literally repeating histories mistakes from 80 years ago. It will take a couple generations to even start to heal this wound.

[-] Stamau123@lemmy.world 21 points 11 months ago

2016-2020s really feels like the greatest hits of the crises of the 20th century. I guess the last ww2 vet dies and everyone decides to forget everything.

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[-] Jaysyn@kbin.social 15 points 11 months ago

Speedrunning Hitler's failures.

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[-] havokdj@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago

This is truly the greatest orphan grinding machine of All Time.

[-] electrogamerman@lemmy.world 12 points 11 months ago

Maybe they can open the borders to immigrants?

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[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

lol. Fuck russia.

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[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

he really needs to skip a step and go full Krieg and just grow his cannon fodder in tubes

edit: the difference is that Krieg is competant

[-] DarkGamer@kbin.social 10 points 11 months ago

Create more children to be used as cannon fodder by a dystopian and antihumanism regime? I'm sure that will go over well.

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