Add to the equation a conventional war, which basically is now killing in weeks the amount that were killed in the Afghanistan war. The huge attrition of the war can be seen in the fact that Ukraine has been protecting it's youngest generations and the Ukrainian soldier is on average very old, from 43-45 years old range, something basically similar to Hitler's Volkstrum. The age that Ukrainian soldiers are conscripted to the war is I think at 25 years old, when a large part have already been have had children.The biggest challenge for Russia is to improve male life expectancy, which is starkly lower than the female statistics. Russian males on average live 66 years, whereas Russian females can expect to live 76 years. The reasons for such dismal numbers for males range from high alcohol consumption and smoking to poor healthcare and hygiene habits to dangerous driving and risky behaviors.
Being very busy at work is not a valid reason, but a lame excuse. You can engage in procreation during breaks, because life flies by too quickly. — Yevgeny Shestopalov (Health Minister)
The reasons for such dismal numbers for males range from high alcohol consumption and smoking to poor healthcare and hygiene habits to dangerous driving and risky behaviors.
Typically, offices have rules concerning sexual harassment, not so much about having sex there, let alone promoting it. ( — jorndoe
They don't only party. They drink to forget the reality. Just like with American popping pills and using drugs. Or do you think that all those fentanol use drugs to party full blast until people they die?So Russian men basically party full blast until they die. Is that a cultural thing? — frank
(2014) Russians may toast with the words “Na zdorovie” – "to your health" – but a new study finds that Russian men are often literally drinking themselves to death.
It shows that Russian men double their risk of dying over the next 20 years by drinking three bottles of vodka a week. It helps explain why Russian men have one of the lowest life expectancies in the world – 64 compared to 76 for U.S. men.
I would be fired on the spot for having sex at work. — frank
Let's say he ends the war in 100 days, as the Trump administration now says it intends, what then? — Tzeentch
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio denounced Moscow's aggression in Ukraine but said it was "dishonest" to claim Kyiv was capable of destroying Russia on the battlefield and returning to the pre-2014 state of affairs, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview published on Jan. 30.
The U.S. official acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin carried out "atrocities" and "horrible things" as part of his invasion of Ukraine but voiced doubts about Kyiv's prospects for a complete military victory.
"But what the dishonesty that has existed is that we somehow led people to believe that Ukraine would be able, not just to defeat Russia, but destroy (Putin), push him all the way back to what the world looked like in 2012 or 2014 before the Russians took Crimea," Rubio said on the Megyn Kelly Show.
Actual realism is that Putin will accept a negotiated peace/ceasefire if he faces a real possibility of military defeat. — ssu
What do you know, nuclear deterrence works.Only if it's a realistic possibility, which it isn't. The US and Europe are and never were going to risk WW3 over Ukraine. — Tzeentch
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