Comments by "Paul Aiello" (@paul1979uk2000) on "Russia’s Demographic Crisis is Getting Worse" video.

  1. Russia has been in decline around the fall of the Soviet Union, but in truth, the decline was happening much sooner than that as the US and allies, have more or less forced Russia to spend a lot to compete with the west, which in part probably played a big part in the fall of the Soviet Union, with the fall, things have slowly got worse, now Russia have an economy in between the size of Spain and Italy, whiles having to account for a much bigger population. What makes it worse for Russia, if it wasn't for its natural resources, Russia would be a lot poorer and the truth is, Russia just isn't competitive with the west and the west view on Russia was from the Soviet era, the war in Ukraine really exposed how weak Russia as a power is, and the writing was on the wall with the size of its economy, which that is the main base that determines real power in this world. Now with everything that's going on with Russia and Ukraine, it's likely to speed up the process of decline for Russia and as the video points out, a lot of 18-35 years olds being killed in the war and many that are leaving the country are likely younger generations with higher skill sets, the kind of people Russia can't afford to lose, the implications of that longer term on the Russian economy isn't looking good, especially as countries move towards cleaner energy sources and alternatives to raw materials of Russia, basically, the moment Russia played politics with its raw materials, not many countries are going to want to do business with them and even if they do, they won't put themselves into a dependent state, which is forcing Russia to sell at a below market price. To make things worse for Russia, the longer the war in Ukraine drags on, the more costly in lives and on the economy it will be for Russia and I suspect some in the west, especially the US wants the war to drag on to drain the resources of Russia, to weaken them as a power and to isolate them. On the plus side, Putin has done what Greenpeace couldn't do, now a lot of countries are speeding up the adoption of renewable and other clean energy sources and all it took was energy security to be the cause of that, basically, a lot more countries are going to want to generate more energy internally, and we are seeing a big uplift on that from the major powers of the EU, US and China, that's terrible news for Russia. Another plus point, the EU and NATO could be back on track for expansion, the last thing Russia wanted and the irony being, it was Putin that created that situation by scaring countries into wanting to join the EU and NATO, this war couldn't have gone any worse for Putin if he tried, and I bet if he could go back, he wouldn't have started this war if he knew the west would react like this, but now Putin has put himself into a situation where he can't go back without looking weak to the Russia people, that basically means either Putin will either get deposed or killed at some point or Russia continues its current course of decline, if the Russian people are smart, they'll find a way to depose of Putin and his government, because the second option is going to hit every Russian in the country negatively and personally, I think that needs to happen to wake the Russian people up.
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