Comments by "Boarface Swinejaw" (@boarfaceswinejaw4516) on "Ukraine's Catastrophic Fertility Crisis Explained" video.

@kacperzimowski4626 phillipines actually has the third lowest birth rate in asia, with a massive migration rate. comparing it to Ukraine is unfair based entirely on circumstances alone.
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i get all of the other stuff, but absence of cultural traditionalism? what the fuck are you on about, Ukraine is a staunchly religious orthodox christian country, no different from all the other eastern european countries.
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@ElysV135 any peace negotiation that ends with Russia winning land will count as a russian victory, and thus a victory for any dictator with imperialist ambitions.
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@ElysV135 this is not some limp-wristed political stance, this is literally "no, this is not the 18th century anymore, you cant just randomly annex territory from your neighbours". IF Putin wins land, that will mean that literally every nation with imperialistic ambitions has absolutely fuckall and nothing to be worried about. Iran can take land from Israel, China can take Vietnam and Taiwan, Turkey can take Cyprus. and thats without going into how this war is fought solely by ukrainians. The west isnt forcing Ukraine, in fact a lot of western countries even tried to get some peace talks going but it was the Ukrainians who refused. Ukrainians would rather die before being forced to live under russian control, before they would ever ordain themselves to be subject to the influene of Putin. they still remember the Holodomor, wherein Soviet (russian) policies caused 4 million deaths in Ukraine. Thats why they are fighting, because they'd rather die in their tens or hundreds of thousands in war then die in their millions due to some other russian genocidal policy. You'd have more luck convincing Israelis to abandon israel and let their nation be absorbed by their neighbours then you'd have convincing Ukraine to surrender.
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@sapatsuppa "calculated that by 2014" what the fuck. its 2023 and the population is measured in about 44-46 million.
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The solutions to the fertility crisis would require some aggressive measures that would absolutely infuriate the richest people, which explains why it isnt happening. -Better Salaries, shorter workdays -Forcing landowners and Landlords to actually lower their prices -making marriage more legally beneficial and more importantly less of a minefield. -social safety net focused on helping shouldering the burden of raising children. -Government subsidizing of social gatherings where people are more likely to meet one another. all of these cost money.
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@notak4046 Nah, Communism had some of the best and worst tendencies of hardline socialism in the beginning. say what you will about the soviet union, it was a dystopian shithole, but under communism it went from an entirely agrarian society full of illiterate serfs to an industrial powerhouse with a high literacy level that in later years would lend itself to the soviet union having the first nuclear power grid and being the first to send people into space. Communism is bad, and i would never dream of living under it for a second, but lets not throw out the baby with the bathwater just because it leaves a bad taste in your mouth and instead give it its honest due.
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@notak4046 that is because communism, especially later on, had some of the worst tendencies of capitalism without any of the benefits. people worked to death in factories and could barely afford to eat.
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@easternfrontagain Russia was communist as well, but they sure as hell are extremely religious now. Stalin was the one who went after religion, but he died a long time ago.
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@Abvrlli Ukrainians are the ones who chose to fight, you dunce. secondly, its not just Putin, but every dictator would feel emboldened to just invade and annex territory however it wants. Today its russia in Ukraine, tomorrow its Iran in Israel, next week its China in Vietnam and Taiwan, then perhaps a month later its Russia against Ukraine again.
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