Comments by "TotalRookie_LV" (@TotalRookie_LV) on "The Ukraine War From Russia's Perspective" video.

@hanooi7450 "Fun" fact - the demographic structure of Russia still bears scars from WWII - around every 25 years (one generation) there is a drop in number of people - fewer people were born during the war and many died, not leaving any descendants. Currently this dent in demographics among younger people is in ages 22-24 - pretty much in the middle of the conscription age (18-27 in Russia), so if Putin wanted to deal maximum damage to Russian population, now was the time to do that, and he did. Actually he did that for the second time - before that there was Second Chechen war approximately one generation ago.
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Kremlin wanted to be the #1 at least at something, unfortunately (for them, not us) they are only good at failing.
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@giantsashavor7809 LoL, to "stop decline" all Putin had to do was to do nothing - same as with economics, since due to oil and gas prices skyrocketing after 2003 invasion in Iraq, the influx of money was insane. Oil cost ~13$ in late 1990s and over 100$ in 2000s. The one programme that actually worked in Russia in improving demographics was so called "maternal capital" (материнский капитал) for 2nd child (and consequent kids too), due to which it made sense not to stop after the first child, BUT since then the programme has been fucked up and is no longer effective - they changed the rules. Besides Rusian economics started to stagnate in 2012 (after Putin got "eleccted" for the 3rd term and investment started to leave Russia) and in decline since 2013, so it's harder and harder to sustain family. Besides Russian authorities try to bend rules and avoided supporting kids in any way possible; like why are big centralised exams just slightly under 4h long? Because if kids spent in school 4 hours, the should be served a free meal.
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@giantsashavor7809 He didn't. Putin has worsened situation with accessibility of medicine, caused largest emigration in recent decades and started wars, which made liss of life among young Russian men so noticeable, one could even see it on graphs back in 2014, and now it's much worse.
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@tuams Vai ne? Viņi pat varētu pavilkt arī lielas izmaksas, ja: 1) nesalektos ar visiem iespējamajiem sadarbības partneriem; 2) nešķērdētu naudu uz visādu nevajadzīgu huiņu, kas vajadzīga tikai lai nodemonstrētu savu "lielvalsts" statusu (stratēģiskā aviācija, flote, tik milzīgs kodolarsenāls), un nezagtu tik baisos apmēros.
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One "little" problem with geopolitics is - that's complete bullshit, it's not a "theory", it hardly qualifies as a hypothesis. Sure, it might very well be the basis of Russian politics, but that's just another reason, why they keep failing time and time again. Just look at those plains - "the highway for invading armies", which proved to be a trap for Russian armour. Plains are not exactly easy to cross, when those are plains made of mud fields, swamps and rivers. And NATO does not push to the East, it's just that countries are joining NATO, they are running for safety from unstable and unreliable Russia.
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