Comments by "DrScopeify" (@drscopeify) on "BBC World Service" channel.

  1. We can add up he main destinations for Russians and see what we get.... The largest destination is Uzbekistan around 400,000 Russians arrived since 2022 but it could be 500,000 by now. Serbia around 200,000 Russian's arrived since 2022. UAE is a bit hard to know, around 1 million Russians arrived in UAE since 2022 but many might just be a vacation or temporary until the war is over, mostly rich Russian's families of Oligarchs and so on, I would guess maybe 200,000. Georgia accepted 110,000 Russians but 1/3 have already left probably to EU, Turkey around 80-90k Russians mostly have moved to other countries. Finland estimates around 40,000 Russian arrived. Around 65,000 Russians moved to Israel. 7,400 Russians moved to China. We do not know how many Russians moved to Kazakhstan - that is kept a secret I imagine maybe 100,000? But have no idea. I am not going to count USA/UK/Australia/Canada as they had to leave Russia to one of the other countries first. My total number is around 1.3 million. I would assume it is between 1.25 and 2 million. Some might return to Russia if the war ends, but a large percent will probably not return after 2-3 years in another country most might be settled down to a new life. Ukrainians and Russians ironically tend to end up living in similar areas people who left both countries end up living in the same cities and areas. Sad situation of course.
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  2.  @fenderek666  The Birth rate in Eastern Ukraine is 1.26% so this is worse than Russia which is 1.42% - so they are mostly gaining old people who are from the past somewhat pro Russian maybe? But they also kidnapped people too against their will so who knows what's going on. In the end Russia is long past it's prime and has no chance to compete in industry with China that is simply exporting more and more goods to Russia = collapse of the Russian industry and economy even more than before the war. China is the #1 reason why the USSR Collapsed. China exported to the world everything much much cheaper than Soviets ever could so they were kicked out of globalized world by China. It really is China that lead to the collapse of the USSR but Putin is ignoring this and the future risks becasue he needs China to fund Russia in the short term, but in the long term this is a very serious risk for Russia.
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