Russia and Ukraine

[Anomalocaris]

Ukraine is one of only of the countries with demographic trends had been consistently worse than Russia’s had been when Russia’s was at its worst at around 2010, and Russian demographic trends have since improved while Ukraine’s has not.  That’s before 7 million Ukrainians, mostly younger and more educated, emigrated rather than fought for Ukraine in the last 2 years.    So Ukrainians winning in the bedroom seems far fetched.

The number who emigrated to escape fighting obligations also suggest the nationalistic unity of purpose and determination to throw out the invaders is not as strong as one might hope.