This is pretty close to half a years worth of births for Russia and obviously the lost even more. Last time Russia did mobilize a lot of young men left the country. So it will be very likely worse then that. Oh and Putin cares about the number of births in Russia, so those numbers might well be fake.
They won’t let guys escape this time - expect stuff like closed borders and an internet lockdown so people can’t spread information or coordinate. They signed a law recently allowing them to seize assets and cut off government services for Russians abroad convicted in absentia for a variety of offenses, so anyone who does leave will probably lose anything they can’t take with them; I’m sure any family members left behind will somehow be guilty of something.
But, yeah - worsening their existing demographic and economic problems is real fuckin’ dumb.
This is pretty close to half a years worth of births for Russia and obviously the lost even more. Last time Russia did mobilize a lot of young men left the country. So it will be very likely worse then that. Oh and Putin cares about the number of births in Russia, so those numbers might well be fake.
They won’t let guys escape this time - expect stuff like closed borders and an internet lockdown so people can’t spread information or coordinate. They signed a law recently allowing them to seize assets and cut off government services for Russians abroad convicted in absentia for a variety of offenses, so anyone who does leave will probably lose anything they can’t take with them; I’m sure any family members left behind will somehow be guilty of something.
But, yeah - worsening their existing demographic and economic problems is real fuckin’ dumb.