Paul Krugman Called It

[arewethereyet]

Hmmm...not only the same bikini but the same hair stylist...the Stepford Swedes?

[Anomalocaris]

You're boasting of a birth rate that's 20% below replacement rate, in a country very hostile to immigration?

Huh? Russia is 2nd after USA by number of immigrants worldwide

Huh, no.

Russia has the second largest foreign born population, mostly from other parts of the former USSR thanks to her dominant position in the former USSR. These foreign born populations are counted in her moribund birth rate.  They are not something new that can offset her moribund population growth rates. For that it would require new immigrants.

She did not absorb anywhere near the second largest number of new immigrants.  Her net 5 year immigration rate is about 7%, which is well below most major European countries and less than 1/2 of that of the US.

What is more, the source of most new immigration into Russia is other parts of former USSR. Most other parts of former USSR have their own moribund birthrates. So how long will it be before they runs out of population to sustain such Inadaquate rates of new immigration into Russia as they do now?

Of course the main exception to moribund birth rates in former USSR appear to be some Islamic region in the south. So Russia can alsways count on having more Islamic immigrants where they come from to help bolster the numbers in the great white, Christian, pro-rich natural ally of trump.

Putin is making Russia great again, isn’t he.

[Dmitry1983]

Anyway you don't really need high population growth in the age of automation

[Amarok]

Anyway you don't really need high population growth in the age of automation

[Pat Mustard]

You're boasting of a birth rate that's 20% below replacement rate, in a country very hostile to immigration?

Huh? Russia is 2nd after USA by number of immigrants worldwide

citation needed

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What is more, the source of most new immigration into Russia is other parts of former USSR.  

And most of these "immigrants" were Russians transplanted into foreign SSRs under Russian attempts to co-opt foreign cultures into the Russian culture during soviet times, or their children.

In Ireland we don't count returning emigrants as immigrants.

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Anyway you don't really need high population growth in the age of automation

You need to be able to automate though. Guess what Russia is really bad at doing, mainly because its industries have been stripped of equipment and capital these last twenty-eight years.

That's right, creating automated processes to make stuff.

[Dmitry1983]

Huh? Russia is 2nd after USA by number of immigrants worldwide

citation needed

Oops, sorry we are 3rd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...population

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Anyway you don't really need high population growth in the age of automation

You need to be able to automate though.  Guess what Russia is really bad at doing, mainly because its industries have been stripped of equipment and capital these last twenty-eight years.

That's right, creating automated processes to make stuff.

We will gladly accept all your automated factories when USA will become Venezuela thanks to american liberals(or simply import them from China)

[Amarok]

We will gladly accept all your automated factories when USA will become Venezuela thanks to american liberals(or simply import them from China)

Ah Argument Ad Venezuela mixed with varied another bullocks

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Oops, sorry we are 3rd.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_so...population

Which actually hurts your point

[Pat Mustard]

accept all your automated factories when USA will become Venezuela thanks to american liberals(or simply import them from China)

The Russian economy is fucked, it will be fucked ten years in the future, and ten years after that (no matter the world's situation will then be). All the productive Russians are getting out, all the intelligent Russians are getting out, all the determined Russians are getting out. All you'll have left soon will be the Putin whores (like yourself), the alcoholics, the pensioners and the mob.

[DLJ]

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Russia is a conservative christian pro-rich white country. We are natural allies

Yabut, who would want to do business with a declining super-power, run by a plutocratic-oligarchy with a sham-democracy and an appalling human rights record, backed by a christian patriarchy whose power is disproportionate to the beliefs of the populace?









I think the Russians have higher standards than that.

[Anomalocaris]

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Russia is a conservative christian pro-rich white country. We are natural allies

Yabut, who would want to do business with a declining super-power, run by a plutocratic-oligarchy with a sham-democracy and an appalling human rights record, backed by a christian patriarchy whose power is disproportionate to the beliefs of the populace?









I think the Russians have higher standards than that.

Who better for one declining has been to commiserate with than another?