Russia and Ukraine

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Apologies for butting in...

Religion poisons everything. What religion do you observe that you think killing fellow humans is okay?

Lack of religion caused deaths of 100 million people. Every year American women kill 800,000 unborn babies. Why do you think this genocide is okay?

There are two different things you write there...

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Lack of religion caused deaths of 100 million people.
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What makes you say this? Where does that number come from?


Also, check this: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1034...abortions/
It shows that Russia is having more than 500,000 abortions every year. With a population of less than half that of the US, I'd think your point kinda melts away.

Elsewhere (https://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/...ussia.html), we see that, during the great Soviet times, those numbers were closer to 4 million per year.

For extra comparison, the EU (https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/un...ion-europe) stands on ~400,000 per year with a population greater than the US.

Let me try to build a table:
--------- Abortions (x1k) - Pop (x1M) - percentage
US -------- 800 ------------ 330 -------- 0.24%
Russia ---- 500 ------------ 143 -------- 0.34%
EU -------- 400 ------------ 448 -------- 0.08%


So which seems to be the better overall system, purely from the point of view of leading fewer women into aborting?

Nothing is permanent, not even an authoritarian regime. The Communists thought they'd never be deposed too -- but when citizens get fed up with bad governance, the leader will be overthrown. This is the echo of history. Putin's war will probably result in his fall unless he finds a way to get out from under it.

Why do you think I care about Putin's fall? Why do you think democracies are permanent?

Democracies are not perfect... But dictatorships are much less so.
Capitalism permeates both systems and makes it all worse.