Some points that were "honorable mention" but didn't make it into the final video: 1. While other countries like the U.S. also have birth rates below replacement level, unlike Russia, their population levels are rising (while Russia is falling). This is because Russia has a low life expectancy and low immigration (despite best efforts). The U.S. also still has a significantly higher birth rate than Russia, even though it is still below replacement level. 2. Life expectancy plays into the crisis in a big way. Due to alcohol addiction, Russian life expectancy for men is extremely low. This also plays into the demographic crisis. 3. Unlike other countries, Russia's demographic problem comes in more pronounced waves of every 25 years or so (mentioned in the video). This is much worse than evenly distributed demographic decline, because it creates shocks of lack of labor/tax base on a cyclical trend. If every 25 years, you have very few young people starting entry level jobs, that's very hard for businesses to plan for and cope with. 4. The demographic crisis is worse when you consider that most of the births are happening outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. There, the birth rates are much lower than the national average. 5. Those leaving Russia are overwhelmingly the wealthier and more educated, while those immigrating to Russia are the opposite (coming from Central Asia and desperate for any kind of opportunity). Not only is the Russian population still declining despite immigrants, but it is essentially replacing its most productive workers for other countries' least productive workers. Be sure to check out these videos related to this episode: Russia is Literally Running Out of Everything (Tanks, Planes, People…): ua-cam.com/video/pUW_4AusgGk/v-deo.html Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem: ua-cam.com/video/wQDpN4MWDPc/v-deo.html
Another problem with the exodus of people from Russia is the fact that the ones who are leaving are the very people that Russia would want to keep; the ones whose intelligence, education, skills, abilities and talents would be of most value to the society.
@@rebeccaaldrich3396 Mandarin isn't even universal in China. There are several hundred languages in China. Mandarin is spoken by less than 75% of Chinese. Currently more people speak English than any other language. It has become the international language and is taught everywhere. That will never happen for Mandarin. If you ever tried to learn it, you would know why.
@@bdub1934 Don't know what a bunch of oldies and poor chavs can do for Russia. Almost every major city that Russia claims has but only as many as one or two thousand people,
He really did expect it to be over in a few weeks... Look at him on camera then and now. Back then he was laughing and when asked what he would do if western nations decided to help Ukraine defend itself he laughed happily and said "you can try"... Look at him now... Twitching face, frowning, fumbling hands.. FAFO. He messed up. He got away with it in Checnya, Georgia, Moldova and the 2014 invasion of Ukraine. So its understandable.
@@VajrahahaShunyata Putin also expected the West to do what Obama did when it seized Crimea...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Instead, a lot did happen, and it still happening, which surprised me truth be told, and really surprised the Russians. I mean...giving up all that cheap gas and oil, right next door, for little old Ukraine's sake? Europe would never...(thankfully, along with local nations like Norway, the US is now an energy POWERHOUSE).
Close before the end, Hitler stated that 'the German people are not worth saving' because they could not win the war he started. Seems to me Putin is thinking the same.
Bad leadership. Putin was doing really good before he took Crimea. Got Russia out of a recession, then yolo'd everything for a chance at glory. Then failed horribly. Dictators with that mindset always want to leave a legacy of glory, not to build their nation. Because often, the people who build the foundation rarely are remembered. Think of Frederick I of Prussia. Everyone cares about his son, Frederick II, not him because he didn't really do anything "big."
The important thing to remember is that Putin didn't think his invasion of Ukraine would be like this. He thought he would have the whole country conquered in under a week and installed a puppet ruler. Ukraine was never the primary target, the Baltic States were. He knew he didn't have the demographics to take the Baltics alone, but the combined numbers of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine COULD close the Suwalki Gap and quickly overrun the Baltics before NATO could respond. Bear in mind, in that alternate universe Sweden and Finland are still neutral and not in NATO.
@howiehall4622 Meanwhile Winnie is gearing up to take taiwan and has literal concentration camps for muslims But yeah, I've said for nearly ten years that russia is a paper tiger and not a near peer to the USA....Even back in the day of WW2 the soviet union relied INCREDIBLY HEAVILY on the USA for nearly everything other than a poor conscripts body to use them, guns, trucks, food, everything. China meanwhile is in the buildup stage and would be the soviet union on crack if they mobilize. Sure, they'll be inexperienced, but the numbers alone plus chinas industrial capacity would mean a lot of actually equipped soldiers, inexperienced or not. Their navy is a joke, but their goal would only to be to take taiwan and then hold it, if done quick enoug hthey will control most of the worlds microchip production as it's in taiwan., and then you will see a war of economic attrition as the USA cannot supply it's electronics.
He can back out and try to save Russia but it’s like that poker game you bluffed 2/3 of your chips pretending you have a hand. A player called your bluffs both times and you can’t just fold now 😂.
@@brianeleightontrue. He planned to escalate step by step, watching the reaction of the West. First, a bloodless annexation of Crimea, then a "civil" war in Donbass, then an open war in Ukraine, then Moldova, then Baltic states. Probably wouldn't even stop there.
@@MrPolymath0 I don’t think everyone else is going to allow him to take them all down with him. What’s the point of being an oligarch if you, your family and your dacha are all glowing green? Somebody will unalive him first. Putin never understood why the USSR didn’t survive. He doesn’t understand why the Russian empires couldn’t survive. Being a dictator over enslaved populations provides no motivation.
Russia's demographic problem cannot be analyzed without looking at birthrate by ethnicity/race. The European Slavs have an extremely low birthrate where as the non-European peoples such as in the Caucuses have a much higher birth rate. Additionally, Putin made the mistake of thinking taking Ukraine and its 40 million overwhelmingly European Slaving population would solve his demographic problem, and the Russian military could take the Ukraine in days. Yet here we are nearly 2-1/2 years into the war. And if anyone has been paying attention to Russian war crimes, they have kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian kids and given them to Russian families.
@@planetmikusha5898 When those kids grow up and discover that their new parents have been complicit in the deaths or disguising of their birth parents this might not turn out well.
Just like the Nazis when they occupied Poland and parts of Ukraine. The SS kidnapped children from the occupied countries and send them to be adopted by German families. And Russia is doing the same thing the Nazis did.
Lol, when Ukraine moves kids in koursk it s libération but when russia moves russian speaking kids out of a warzone it is "kidnapping". Very neutral pov 😅
@@planetmikusha5898 You left out the part where Ukrainians did the same thing. "But CNN said!-" I've seen more war crimes by ukranians on the dark web than the other way around by far. I hate Russia btw.
My father always used to say, Don't sell your tomorrows for a today, that's exactly what Dobby Botox is doing. Good luck with that Dobby, stay away from windows and energy drinks.
If “we” is Russia, in the past three years the M2 money supply has been growing 10-20% annually. So, quite a lot of money printing. If “we” is the U.S., the growth rate has been 1% total for the three years (it grew a bit faster early on, then shrank). So… not much money is getting printed in the U.S. You get similar trends for other estimates of money supply.
You didn’t mention the alcoholic issue with Russian men and their low life expectancy. For someone who is very concerned about his legacy, you just have to laugh at what his legacy is going to be.
Another major issue having downward effects on population is regional imbalance. The government is giving quite large handouts to families with three or more children. The problem is that the cost of living in large Russian cities is too high vs incomes. These handouts don’t compensate for those costs. Therefore most larger families are in rural poor areas of Russia where there are very few opportunities and educational attainment is lower. The only choice in these communities is to move to the lager cities putting pressure on services and resources which again makes having kids in urban areas more expensive and less attractive. So for example in St Petersburg and Moscow there are 100,000s of 1 and 2 bed apartments but nothing for larger families because no one can afford them and no one is having larger families. That urban/rural divide will only continue until Russia rebalances its economy away from Moscow and St Petersburg which paradoxically it can’t do because this would drive political dissent. Putin has always been one to hide from gaping problems. This pooling of wealth was always going to come back to bite him.
Is deeply concerned over a population crisis... proceeds to invade a major country in a massive war of attrition.. This is the equivalent of living in a forest with anxiety of wildfires - and then go on to light a match and set fire to your house.
He thought he would take over Ukraine in a few weeks. Or he would never have tried. Now he can't quit or he will lose power. Thats a death sentence for the lil killer..
@@VajrahahaShunyata No, he could indeed quit & use proproganda to say it was a victory & the russians would just eat it up like they are still doing as ukraine invades kursk
@@Thunder103093 Yeah, belarus leader already said that ukraine is already "de-nazified", most likely to trying to give Putin a excuse to leave the war.
His stupidity and bad decisions are going to go down in history as the greatest blunders ever made. Think what russia threw away to have this war. It takes a special kind of stupid to do that.
I mean, Russia still is the Ninth most populous country on earth. They're hardly "running out" of people, unless so is Europe, and China, and East Asia, and... It's a bit hyperbolic, even more so when you fail to include the absolute DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE taking place inside...wait for it...Ukraine.
I have another theory. Putin is an avowed "honorary Nazi" as he likes to say, he grew up working for ex-Nazi officers in Germany as a liaison between the Russian occupation government and his families gang (Who were ironically selling Soviet war stockpiles for cash and tattling on rivals to the KGB for political credit). His whole life was spent as a gangster, a Nazi, and a saboteur of the Soviet state... I wonder if he is completing an anti-bolshevik plan to depopulate Russia by any means for his Nazi ideals?
Well, not having enough land has not been a problem for Russia for the last 300 years. You would imagine that they try to improve the economy instead of getting more land, but no...
It ALREADY couldn't fill its land with people! That's the most insulting thing about their expansionism. They can't inhabit, govern, or exploit most of the territory they already controlled!
Makes sense. Peasant children are traditionally put to work at an early age. Once they survived their first few years of life, they essentially began helping paying for themselves by helping with the crops and/or livestock. City children? Varied from time and place (child labor laws weren't passed based purely on hypotheticals). Sometimes they were hired by factories and mines. Sometimes they weren't.
Unfortunately the majority of Russians still support Putin. Anyway, they will not have means to feed many children when they are still under sanctions.
@@Tigerman1138 Especially not in russia, the building will crumble. Russians making threats at this point are hilariously impotent. Yeah right, like how you'd be done with your special operation in two weeks...oh sorry, a month... oh sorry, two months... oh sorry, a year, oh sorry.... two years....i'm sure you'll get them eventually as your economy continues to plummet.
Russian scientists: Mr. Tsar Putin? A word? We are running out of people! Tsar Putin: "let's start a war, people will flee and others will end on the front" Me: Russian logic is something else
It's a problem of incentive. Russia needs the people, trade relations and a more open and equal society. But the people in power, Putin most of all, don't get anything out of a prosperous and democratic Russia. So he started this war to cement his legacy and use the military as long as he still got it. The people might as well not be there if they don't work in hydrocarbon production or the military industrial complex.
@@esprit101 - the nature recourses have been a curse kind of, where the money come in to the country and the population is not needed, but also, there must be something seriously wrong with the mentality of russian people, they give the impression of being zombies, with no will of themselves
One worry of mine is that in years to come those same scientists may propose to Putin (or an equally bad successor) that Russia begin creating artificial wombs to allow the state to remedy the child deficit by raising children on its own, without relying on ordinary reproduction by the citizens. In such a case, the leader might not choose to ignore them, since millions of people owing their very lives to the state and its leader is a dictator's fondest dream.
Yeah, because "losing" produces headlines like this: "Over the past week, the Russian army has captured an area of about 80 square kilometers and seized control of the settlements of Mykolaivka, Zhelanne, Orlivka, Lysychne, Ivanivka and Svyrydonivka - Russia’s most significant military advance since May." Why are the Russians gaining so quickly, you ask? The costly and strategically irrelevant "invasion" of a tiny sliver of Kursk Oblast: "Based on the intensity of the assaults, it can be assumed that the Russian army intensified their attacks in this area after they realized that the main part of the Ukrainian reserves was engaged on ANOTHER section of the front,” said Alexey Alshanskiy of the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an independent organization that conducts open-source investigations of the Russian military. (Care to guess where those Ukrainian defenders abandoned Ukrainian territory for? LOL I'll give you one guess!)
@@junkscience639780 sq kilometers is irrelevant in the context of Ukraine taking 1250 sq km of Russian territory. There is a river around this territory and Ukrainians have dug in. Russia will be unable to retake it without apocalyptic casualties
"We have a lot of people" and "mothers will give birth to new ones" - quotes attributed to Stalin. But at that time the USSR included Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, and various "-Stans" from Central Asia.
They also controlled the nations of the Warsaw pact, which included Poland, Czechoslovakia, E. Germany, etc., and were rather formidable militarily. That's part of the reason that the scare tactic that Russia seeks war with NATO nowadays has always rubbed me the wrong way -- especially since NATO has gone the opposite way and gained a bunch of strong new members. Russia attacked Ukraine because it was unaligned. A rather sickly wildebeest, alone without a herd. A wildebeest they thought might partly enjoy being eaten. After that they perhaps hoped to absorb Moldova or one of the Stans of which you spoke. Still worth opposing these plans. But lies aren't good, and really weren't needed.
@@polarvortex3294 Russia attacked Ukraine because it was a direct existential threat to the Putin regime. Ukraine pushed out a Russian puppet placed directly by Putin, held internationally monitored and administered democratic elections, culled a huge number of corrupt Russian oligarchs and snapped off their siphons from the Ukrainian economy, they forced out the Russian regular army thugs that were propping up the regime, and then once Russia invaded Crimea, they had the absolute Gall to resist and cause embarrassment to the Putin regime by making it so Crimea was an unstable base of expansion and resisted all attempts at political domination. Ukraine was slowly cutting off trade dependence on Russia and expanding to European, African trade opportunities (Including grain and gas which threatened Russian monopolies). Plus Kyiv has always been the political, cultural, and religious heart of the Soviet and particularly Russian states. If Kyiv changed to a democratic, EU aligned, free press state, then modern Russians might be compelled to follow suit, because Russians were always called Kyiv Rus for a reason.
"Hidden"? Mark Steyn wrote about Russia's demographic collapse in 2006. It gets better. The Russian Federation's Muslim nations are growing in population, which means that the Russian Federation is trending Muslim.
Yeah, Chechens has not forgotten how they were treated...they and dagestan will want their lands back and they are going to get it back because they have the population, unlike Russian elite.
@@markoliimatainen2565 Chechens will never get "their" land back because "they" are living in a society with a bunch of mafia-like clowns as leaders. No chechen will be free if their elites try to secede from russia. The chechen peasants will be ruled and robbed by the same clowns.
@@Tigerman1138 Yep. The "old way" involved hideous infant & maternal mortality, so those 8 kids wouldn't all live to adulthood, & a lot of women wouldn't survive 8 childbirths anyway. It's not like that in modern Russia, even for the poorest people.
@@beth7935 I agree. It sounds like settlers on the American frontier along Oregon Trail: Have 8 2 die from malnutrition 1 taken by Apache to raise as their own 2 die from malaria 1 from a snake bite or fever, drowning, typhoid 2 make it…and who knows what will happen in wilderness once they arrive?
Instead of blowing billions on war putler could have spent that money on his own ppl and increase the living standard for all instead of a chosen few maybe then ppl would stay in the country and have more kids
@@Guitar6ty ....Not at all lmao....Taking in immigrants and refugees from other countries is NOT invading another country to try and "absorb" their population. You are insane.
@@Guitar6ty Nah buddy good luck selling that having immigrants and refugees welcomed into your country to continue growing despite people choosing not to have children is the same as literally invaDING A FOREIGN COUNTRY to try to "absorb" the population you wackjob.
And now there is a serious discussion within russian propaganda that 18 year old conscripts should be fighting in Kursk region as this is actual russian territory and is their duty to defend the motherland.
Sure you need people to have kids. But for those in Russia that might consider building a family, who would want to raise or start a new family in an environment like this???
@@The_Good_Captain LOL! The west is composted of rich first world countries with excellent living standards and human right. Neo-fascist ruSSia is a frozen third world toilet who's living standards are terrible even by third world standards. For comparison, Bangladesh has much higher life expectancy, a fraction of the violent crime / murder / rape and a tiny, tiny fraction of the HIV prevalence. Even Bangladesh is better than third world ruSSia.
There's already a "sneak invasion" ongoing. Many Chinese workers and such have been moving into North Eastern Russia the recent years. China playing the long game as with Tibet.
My favorite Phonk artist, Kaito Shoma, fled from russia to the UAE right after the invasion first happened, so even I know of someone who fled while the fleeing was good from that damn failed state.
but he's genius at the same time (ironic, right?).....for instance imagine you are the ruler of your home and within that home is a good person that agrees with your every thought but there's one dweller that is a thief (to the front lines), one that is constantly dissenting (to the front lines), others that might dare to protest (to the front lines), those that might be my enemy (to the front lines)......WHAT A BLISSFUL LIFE, RIGHT!? I'm GOD in my world! worshp me or TO THE FFFFFRONT LINES!
@@KennyHendrick-px1xr I suspect this is part of the Reason Putin's been cool with the human-wave-type of tactics used by his commanders. Not sure he really wants hundreds of thousands of hardened veterans returning from the war who don't especially love him much.
@@KennyHendrick-px1xr From a purely strategit aspect, having rebels infiltrate strategic positions in Ukraine and then claim "independence" and their "desire to wish to join russia" was an excellent way to gain land without a direct war. It was when he escalted it that it became senseless. Trump called him a genius based on that, before he openly declared war. He said he was a very cunning tactic to get what he wants, not that it was a good thing. But whatever, I guess you want the dude who touched his neice in the showers they took together and voted against segregation and gave a passioante speech about not wanting his kids to be in school with other colors. He's much better, right? Lol. TDS is definitely a real thing.
@@Skabb-eg4oy What is TDS and who is this shower person you speak of (can I get these photos you say are available? I'm assuming you already have a copy to validate your claim, or have seen them at very least). HOWEVER if you are going to be a russian (usually incorporating circular reasoning laying blame on others when guilty themselves, usually integrating some sort of distraction or divide-and-conquer tactic by misdirecting targets to look instead at nazis, nato, ukrainians, booogiemen, etc.), then rest assured I've already had my share of that side of the story.
This war was supposed to be swift. They weren't prepared to last this long. The only reason why it has lasted this long is Putin's "determination", which means his pride and desperation.
I also wonder how the rampant alcoholism contributes to the population decline. It is a factor in the "hopelessness scale," but is it statistically significant?
Anyone having visited Russia (before february 2022) might had seen two Russia: Moscow/St-Petersbourg, where is the money and the all other areas, very poor.
The reason why Putin's actions are so mind-blowing is because Putin is very small and he was always scared of how big Russia is. When you adopt the idea that Putin is an enemy of Russia, all his actions make perfect sense. He will be in piece with Russia when it will be of acceptable size for Putin (which is half of North Korea by territory because Jong Un's surface area is double the size of Putin's).
Be sure to check out these videos related to this episode: Russia is Literally Running Out of Everything (Tanks, Planes, People…): ua-cam.com/video/pUW_4AusgGk/v-deo.html Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem: ua-cam.com/video/wQDpN4MWDPc/v-deo.html
You seem to find very flattering images of Putin. He became at least 40 years older since 2022. Fun fact: in the coronavirus year or shortly after (I suppose it was 2020), RIA News came up with a beautiful phrase "negative growth of population". There are other words in russian to express population decline, but all of them were clearly UNACCEPTABLE for Putin (which is the only consumer of news that matters in Russia because he is the only citizen in Russia who has rights)
Thanks for the reminder. I did watch _"Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem"_ and was very pleased with it. A very good production. The one on russia's military hardware problems was put on my "to watch later" list, I'll try to find time tonight. Thanks for informative, well rounded videos.
Honestly, we got to add though that due to this invasion, Ukrainian's demographic problem became even worse than Russia's. Putin also sees conquering territory as a means to increase his population. The West urgently needs to bring more support to Ukraine and get rid of those endless red lines. Slava Ukraini
yea. even if ukraine wins and gets pre 2014 border. we'll see a depopulated east and crimea even 100 years in the future. just how we can still tell apart what used to be germany in poland since the population density in those areas is generaly lower then then poland side. even more so there will likely be a stripe of basicaly no population on the long standing contact lines since everything around there is bombed into rubble :/
The footage with empty strollers, is from Ukraine. They were placed in Lviv’s old town on March 18 2022 to symbolize the children killed in the ongoing russian invasion. I don't think it's appropriate to use this footage in the video about russian problems with having children.
At the 45 second mark this video makes a serious error. It asserts, "You see, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, the population of Russia has been plummeting..." Actually, long before the USSR fell apart the population of the Russian SSR was declining, due to low birth rates. The population of ALL the republics of the USSR that were mainly ethnically European, were declining. The entire population of the USSR was still growing as the fertility of the muslim people in the Eastern republics was very high. Years prior to the USSR falling apart I read an article that named the month and year the Soviet Union would transition from a population that was more than 50 percent ethnically European, to one where ethnically European people would be a minority. It speculated on massive impacts to the USSR of this demographics revolution. Of course the USSR collapsed before it was struck by this demographics revolution. Anyhow, Russia's demographic problems didn't begin in 1991.
Beyond the conflict in Ukraine, the quality of life in Russia is pretty bad overall. Which is also a driving factor for many young Russian's to leave the country. The better their education, talents and financial background the more likely they are to exit Russia for life in a Western nation.
Population decline can mean lower housing prices due to lower demand, increased food availability if same land use etc. My favourite is more space for natural areas and wildlife as less pressure from people. I honestly see several benefits to far less people on the earth, the capitalism focus on economic growth is kinda what communism was against?
the world would do fine if the population would be max 5 billion. take for example African nations that have food shortages year after year, that should be an indication that those nations have more people than the nation can support. and thus those nations shouldn't grow anymore (population wise) and should try to reduce their population. same with small nation that are running out of land to put their people. the human population can't keep growing we need to accept that.
I've often felt the same way about the earth having fewer people. But unfortunately, the nations of this world still have many strong rivalries and clashes of power and influence where having a large population is advantageous. For that reason I'd feel uncomfortable with America declining in population. Indeed I once saw a book on a thrift store shelf shelf called "One Billion Americans," written by a person who thought along the same lines and felt a big population increase would be for the best for us. Also, the plight of Europe goes to show that a population decline can result in one's culture being swamped by immigrants if the will to protect that culture is not strong. It's tough... The way this world works there are lot of nice things we could have & neat things we could do if everyone was chill and not greedy for wealth and power or simply out for themselves. 🌄🦆🐠🏌♀🏂
@@apveening unfortunately we stopped after Flevoland. yes we extended the Port of Rotterdam, but by now we should have made a 13th province and extended our land into the North Sea if we want to keep growing and also keep the Dutch vibe/way of live.
@@sjl197 Russian population density is very low already. Housing prices won't decline cause the remaining population will relocate to major cities, where the prices will grow.
The frustrating thing is that if Russia just didn't invade it's neighbors, it would be one of the richest countries in the world. Not to say it's people would be much better off, all that wealth would likely go into the pockets of the oligarchs.
In 2011 Russia's birthrate actually went above replacement. This was in large part attributed to hope for the future - many at that time still believed that Russia may still become a democracy as Putin gave up power to Medvedev. It quickly dropped below replacement in 2012 when Putin returned, and cratered far below replacement following the Donbas War, and has only gotten worse since 2022. There is no man more responsible for Russia's population collapse than Putin, and if had been a decent, honorable leader and let himself be succeeded this would not be a problem.
The same is true in every "developed" nation. Turns out that heavily taxing every last penny out of your population, forcing women to work to stay afloat, to make line go up, is a terrible long-term strategy.
The situation you describe makes me mad in a way. The cavemen had to struggle and live harsh lives or they would starve or lose the fight to survive. Now, a million years later we're about in the same boat.
@@polarvortex3294 It's because too many people are followers. A week ago, the factory I work at made a change that increased the labor of a shift by nearly three times, but expected the same production numbers. The amount of "it is what it is" and "nothing I can do about it" and "that's just how it is" I heard as I spoke up and pointed out the flaws in the system, the people getting hurt, the impossible standard, eventually had other employees repeating it and eventually everyone just slowed down to an adjusted 1/3rd of production with the attitude of "you can't fire the whole company, dummy.", but they sure weren't going to do that until someone shook them out of their depressed apathy and reminded them they are actually the ones in control. It worked. Management didn't last a week, day 3 they were hardballing saying they would fire those that couldn't keep up. I pointed out they already have an employee shortage and that was a bluff and that'd be just as soon closing their doors. I said this in a sly way indirectly to management any time they were around by having casual conversation with other workers about how every line is complaining about having no people, and that if they lose enough they wont be able to recover and the company will shut down, and making conditions worse in the factory would only accelerate their current issue. People just have to stand up to the few. Even now, our entire system? The one the few in the government control, making the many miserable? We could get rid of them in a month. Most of the figureheads in a particular afternoon if we wanted to bad enough. We could decide how our farms run, we could decide we grow more food instead of artificially limiting it so that we can sell it to other nations at a higher price. We could. -I- Cannot. But if enough of -us- stand up at once there is no stopping it.
Putin: 'Russia is running out of people! This is big problem!' Also Putin: *Starts a war with a neighbor and continues to utilize human wave tactics against that neighbor, who has modern weaponry* I've heard people say Putin is a smart man. Yeah, I don't see it, either...
@@disastrousduckling I don't think you have a colony when a new land is connected to your old land and you take pains to fully absorb the new land into your country, moving the borders outward. Seems like you have an empire then.
@@polarvortex3294 yeah, exactly that's why I wrote colonial empire. I should use quotes though because at this point everyone knows it's a gas station with a flag which pretends to be an empire. Or ISIS, but everyone's drunk (and ISIS had Toyotas while russian use golf cars, just realized it ;)). Nonetheless, relation to other nations that this weird thing known as russian federation includes, is pure exploitation.
It’s easy to point and laugh, but do remember that ordinary russians are mostly victims of their awful ruler. I truly hope their elderly are not allowed to starve while the silovici still have billions in their coffers
I would add some context to this in that most countries outside of Africa have birth rates below the replacement rate as well. South Korea and China are actually about 1 child per woman. Again though those countries aren't throwing their populations away in a war. Many western countries also are able to supplement their birthrates with immigration which is something that I doubt Russia is able to do right now.
RU is indeed looking like a future vassal state of the CCP, the new visas won't help. This should be good for Australia, as our Indian cousins will side with us imho. There's nothing for India in a CCP run bloc. Thanks from Canberra 🇦🇺
The key way to reduce the fertility rate of a country is to educate women and give them economic opportunities and rights. However, reversing that doesn’t seem to work, much to the chagrin of regressives.
Regarding the 1923 statistic you stated, is that statistic discussing ethnic Russians or Soviets? Soviets would also include Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Kazakhs. That’s important to note given that Russia consistently says they lost 27 million people in WWII, but the main affected ethnic groups were Belarusians and Ukrainians, given that the Germans only occupied a rather small amount of territory where ethnic Russians resided (now Russia). As such, historians have argued that Russia only lost 3-5 million people in WWII, and that Belarus and Ukraine lost between 8-10 million people respectively (not even including the Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Chechens, etc…)
Trump thought Putin's recognition of the independence of the eastern parts of Ukraine and Putin's pledge to support their supposed quest for freedom was ingenious, since this maneuver seemed to give the Russians a cloak of legitimacy to cover their armed forces' entrance into Ukraine's eastern provinces. And indeed at the time it seemed as thought Putin had outsmarted the West again, which is what was really ticking Trump off. I mean, if you remember, the breakaway provinces of Ukraine created names for their supposed new countries: "The Democratic Republic" of whatever... So theoretically, after this, Russia would not be entering Ukraine at all. If you Google "Trump called Putin a genius" you'll soon find a good article by Politco which quotes Trump and explains this. The comment by Trump didn't age well, though, because this clever maneuver by Putin (which really would have blunted the reaction of the West imo) was followed very quickly by the all-out invasion of Ukraine, which was transparently aggressive, and which forced the West to react far more strongly than it otherwise would have. This caused the original meaning of Trump's words to be lost and transmuted in public perception into praise of the invasion, which it was not. If I was advising Trump, I would urge him not to praise any action of any dictator, even if his words were meant as an evaluation of the cleverness of the dictator's tactics only, since such praise could be easily misconstrued, and certainly would be exploited by his political opposition.
Russia is what Canada was called a hundred years ago: a raiload in search of a country. The difference is, Canada had and has a loyal and productive population all across the middle. Russia has a Moslem Middle and a Mongol Tip, with the occasional little village of Muscovy bureaucrats here and there along the rails. Putin's stupid war against Ukraine, which he is very surprised to see himself losing, in just a personal, one-man effort to distract himself from the rality: Russia's prolem isn't just in all the old European "republics" the Soviets lost: it's everything east of the urals -- what the Tsars were able to amass only because the easterners couldn't take a cheap plane ride to civilization in the 1870s.
"Fertility rates were much higher a hundred years ago" Well, yeah. That's how people survived, when infant mortality was high. If only one in ten kids would live to be an adult, you had twenty kids. This whole "Fertility rates are lower than death rates" thing is a recent thing - and is correlated with wealth and comfort of living. Places in the world with extreme poverty have much, much higher fertility rates.
So many devoted country’s have the exact same problem. South Korea Japan. China, United states and at least 1/2 of European countries. Although this war is definitely making Russian issue acutely worse
Poor Putin lost specifics of social hardship. How does Putin saying demographics of Russia is the problem instead of saying preaching hostilities is a reason for demographic discord?
@@VajrahahaShunyata atleast you wont hear "if you dont respect me, youre a "ist-phobe" in ruski-land, then visited by the police and locked up for not calling a man a woman.
@@RabbitShirak All that growth is thanks to migrants. Every single western country currently has a birthrate that is below replacement, and since we're all still mortal, require constant migration to offset the inevitable population decline caused by a below replacement birthrate. Which sounds like a great solution on paper, but is in fact a terrible solution in reality. The native populations are steadily replaced with foreigners (mathematically this is true despite how many try to argue otherwise), and those foreigners do not necessarily share the same beliefs, values, ideals, motivations, etc as the natives. As a result, the west will inevitably stop being the west.
the entire west isn't sending their men into poorly led assaults against strong defenders and keep repeating untill an advance is made....in just 2,5 years 600k casualties is absolutely brutal
The issue is, you’re competing for the same pool of people. You need to offer something as a country if you want people to come. In terms of public services, housing quality/value, schools, culture and tolerance Russia simply can’t compete. People in those countries aren’t dumb, they have the internet and they know where they can get the best working conditions, pay and quality of life. And it ain’t Russia.
Russia used to do it with smaller surrounding countries, including Islamic ones Now those at the top have sent those who got russian citizenship into the trenches while some of them also try to cut down on the immigration completely because they're trying to be as nationalistic as possible after a few acts of terrorism taking place in different cities So I'm not sure how viable it is of a strategy currently
After the collapse of Soviet Russia, they were in very bad shape economically. Western Europe and the US reached out and offered Russia the opportunity to join NATO. Imagine how much better things would be for the Russian people (and Ukrainians, Chechens, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, etc..). All of this is self inflicted... the world could have been so much better off.
Advisor: "There's a big problem in our population demographics." Pootin: "Big you say?" Adviror: "Yes" Pootin: "That certainty doesn't do! I must exacerbate it from big to absolutely unmanageably colossal!"
'Developed' countries, which Russia is apparently one of, need constant immigration from countries with large labour pools. However, nobody wants to go to Russia. Only the poor people in countries that directly border Russia would consider moving there. That's why people make dangerous and expensive journeys of thousands of miles to Europe when they could travel a quarter of that distance to Russia.
Some points that were "honorable mention" but didn't make it into the final video:
1. While other countries like the U.S. also have birth rates below replacement level, unlike Russia, their population levels are rising (while Russia is falling). This is because Russia has a low life expectancy and low immigration (despite best efforts). The U.S. also still has a significantly higher birth rate than Russia, even though it is still below replacement level.
2. Life expectancy plays into the crisis in a big way. Due to alcohol addiction, Russian life expectancy for men is extremely low. This also plays into the demographic crisis.
3. Unlike other countries, Russia's demographic problem comes in more pronounced waves of every 25 years or so (mentioned in the video). This is much worse than evenly distributed demographic decline, because it creates shocks of lack of labor/tax base on a cyclical trend. If every 25 years, you have very few young people starting entry level jobs, that's very hard for businesses to plan for and cope with.
4. The demographic crisis is worse when you consider that most of the births are happening outside of Moscow and Saint Petersburg. There, the birth rates are much lower than the national average.
5. Those leaving Russia are overwhelmingly the wealthier and more educated, while those immigrating to Russia are the opposite (coming from Central Asia and desperate for any kind of opportunity). Not only is the Russian population still declining despite immigrants, but it is essentially replacing its most productive workers for other countries' least productive workers.
Be sure to check out these videos related to this episode:
Russia is Literally Running Out of Everything (Tanks, Planes, People…): ua-cam.com/video/pUW_4AusgGk/v-deo.html
Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem: ua-cam.com/video/wQDpN4MWDPc/v-deo.html
Why does everyone keep saying birth rates are not fixable? It's so easy. Just have citizens have more kids.
They’ve been trying for years to encourage that, without success. It’s not that easy.
Very well said. Also, very well-informed video
@teru797 yeah tell women to change their life styles and become a baby factory because the dear leader said so
@@teru797 It's difficult, because humans don't tend to have children because they were ordered to have some.
Another problem with the exodus of people from Russia is the fact that the ones who are leaving are the very people that Russia would want to keep; the ones whose intelligence, education, skills, abilities and talents would be of most value to the society.
Absolutely correct. It's the definition of brain-drain.
The smartest and most productive...
Thats why they left.
Because they are smart
China is gladly sending in reinforcement. 😅
Soon Mandarin will be taught in all schools. 😂
@@rebeccaaldrich3396 Mandarin isn't even universal in China. There are several hundred languages in China. Mandarin is spoken by less than 75% of Chinese. Currently more people speak English than any other language. It has become the international language and is taught everywhere. That will never happen for Mandarin. If you ever tried to learn it, you would know why.
You see quite a few Russian women working in China
So, Putin is fighting for land without enough Russian to even live on said land. 😂
maybe he wants the people on the land too
Yup.
@@bdub1934 Don't know what a bunch of oldies and poor chavs can do for Russia. Almost every major city that Russia claims has but only as many as one or two thousand people,
"If you can't beat'em, assimilate'em" @@bdub1934
Or the money to fix the land back up after he gets it.
Putin: We are running out of people. Lets start a war of attrition🤦🏼♂️
That should answer all questions about Russia 😂
He really did expect it to be over in a few weeks...
Look at him on camera then and now.
Back then he was laughing and when asked what he would do if western nations decided to help Ukraine defend itself he laughed happily and said "you can try"...
Look at him now...
Twitching face, frowning, fumbling hands..
FAFO. He messed up.
He got away with it in Checnya, Georgia, Moldova and the 2014 invasion of Ukraine.
So its understandable.
@@VajrahahaShunyata Putin also expected the West to do what Obama did when it seized Crimea...ABSOLUTELY NOTHING. Instead, a lot did happen, and it still happening, which surprised me truth be told, and really surprised the Russians. I mean...giving up all that cheap gas and oil, right next door, for little old Ukraine's sake? Europe would never...(thankfully, along with local nations like Norway, the US is now an energy POWERHOUSE).
Close before the end, Hitler stated that 'the German people are not worth saving' because they could not win the war he started. Seems to me Putin is thinking the same.
Bad leadership. Putin was doing really good before he took Crimea. Got Russia out of a recession, then yolo'd everything for a chance at glory. Then failed horribly. Dictators with that mindset always want to leave a legacy of glory, not to build their nation. Because often, the people who build the foundation rarely are remembered. Think of Frederick I of Prussia. Everyone cares about his son, Frederick II, not him because he didn't really do anything "big."
Russia is sending their men to the meat grinder, China needs more women.
The important thing to remember is that Putin didn't think his invasion of Ukraine would be like this. He thought he would have the whole country conquered in under a week and installed a puppet ruler. Ukraine was never the primary target, the Baltic States were. He knew he didn't have the demographics to take the Baltics alone, but the combined numbers of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine COULD close the Suwalki Gap and quickly overrun the Baltics before NATO could respond. Bear in mind, in that alternate universe Sweden and Finland are still neutral and not in NATO.
@howiehall4622 Meanwhile Winnie is gearing up to take taiwan and has literal concentration camps for muslims
But yeah, I've said for nearly ten years that russia is a paper tiger and not a near peer to the USA....Even back in the day of WW2 the soviet union relied INCREDIBLY HEAVILY on the USA for nearly everything other than a poor conscripts body to use them, guns, trucks, food, everything.
China meanwhile is in the buildup stage and would be the soviet union on crack if they mobilize. Sure, they'll be inexperienced, but the numbers alone plus chinas industrial capacity would mean a lot of actually equipped soldiers, inexperienced or not. Their navy is a joke, but their goal would only to be to take taiwan and then hold it, if done quick enoug hthey will control most of the worlds microchip production as it's in taiwan., and then you will see a war of economic attrition as the USA cannot supply it's electronics.
He can back out and try to save Russia but it’s like that poker game you bluffed 2/3 of your chips pretending you have a hand. A player called your bluffs both times and you can’t just fold now 😂.
that old man is crazy, he will use nukes before dying
@@brianeleightontrue. He planned to escalate step by step, watching the reaction of the West. First, a bloodless annexation of Crimea, then a "civil" war in Donbass, then an open war in Ukraine, then Moldova, then Baltic states. Probably wouldn't even stop there.
@@MrPolymath0 I don’t think everyone else is going to allow him to take them all down with him. What’s the point of being an oligarch if you, your family and your dacha are all glowing green? Somebody will unalive him first.
Putin never understood why the USSR didn’t survive. He doesn’t understand why the Russian empires couldn’t survive. Being a dictator over enslaved populations provides no motivation.
Russia's demographic problem cannot be analyzed without looking at birthrate by ethnicity/race. The European Slavs have an extremely low birthrate where as the non-European peoples such as in the Caucuses have a much higher birth rate.
Additionally, Putin made the mistake of thinking taking Ukraine and its 40 million overwhelmingly European Slaving population would solve his demographic problem, and the Russian military could take the Ukraine in days. Yet here we are nearly 2-1/2 years into the war. And if anyone has been paying attention to Russian war crimes, they have kidnapped thousands of Ukrainian kids and given them to Russian families.
@@planetmikusha5898 When those kids grow up and discover that their new parents have been complicit in the deaths or disguising of their birth parents this might not turn out well.
Just like the Nazis when they occupied Poland and parts of Ukraine. The SS kidnapped children from the occupied countries and send them to be adopted by German families. And Russia is doing the same thing the Nazis did.
Lol, when Ukraine moves kids in koursk it s libération but when russia moves russian speaking kids out of a warzone it is "kidnapping".
Very neutral pov 😅
@@etienne8110 You left out the part where thousands of Ukrainian kids were separated from their parents by the Orcs.
@@planetmikusha5898 You left out the part where Ukrainians did the same thing. "But CNN said!-" I've seen more war crimes by ukranians on the dark web than the other way around by far.
I hate Russia btw.
"Russia is running out of people"
looks to me like the people are running out of Russia.
Ha! Clever that one!
This is also happening.
True. Hence russia IS running out of people.
Russia is an ongoing sit com.
30 years down the line I expect to hear of the Eluoqi Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China ......
But a very cruel one.
Just like the Cosby show.
Shit com* more like lol
Always has been.
My father always used to say, Don't sell your tomorrows for a today, that's exactly what Dobby Botox is doing. Good luck with that Dobby, stay away from windows and energy drinks.
I have noticed that you'll never see Putin and Dobby the house elf in the same room together. I have reached the obvious conclusion.
lol your father is right..
How much money have we printed in the last three years?
If “we” is Russia, in the past three years the M2 money supply has been growing 10-20% annually. So, quite a lot of money printing.
If “we” is the U.S., the growth rate has been 1% total for the three years (it grew a bit faster early on, then shrank). So… not much money is getting printed in the U.S.
You get similar trends for other estimates of money supply.
@@luminyam6145 in economics, this issue is called "time inconsistency"
Please stop comparing dobby to this psychopath I can see why but dobby has value for humanity
You didn’t mention the alcoholic issue with Russian men and their low life expectancy. For someone who is very concerned about his legacy, you just have to laugh at what his legacy is going to be.
Ranks 112 in life expectancy by country if memory serves.
Indeed. Their alcohol problem is worse that the US alcohol and drug problems combined.
Just saw a great video on that. 30 per cent of young males will not live till 50. Their military has a huge vodka problem.
Another major issue having downward effects on population is regional imbalance.
The government is giving quite large handouts to families with three or more children. The problem is that the cost of living in large Russian cities is too high vs incomes. These handouts don’t compensate for those costs. Therefore most larger families are in rural poor areas of Russia where there are very few opportunities and educational attainment is lower. The only choice in these communities is to move to the lager cities putting pressure on services and resources which again makes having kids in urban areas more expensive and less attractive.
So for example in St Petersburg and Moscow there are 100,000s of 1 and 2 bed apartments but nothing for larger families because no one can afford them and no one is having larger families.
That urban/rural divide will only continue until Russia rebalances its economy away from Moscow and St Petersburg which paradoxically it can’t do because this would drive political dissent.
Putin has always been one to hide from gaping problems. This pooling of wealth was always going to come back to bite him.
Exactly the same gig in most of Europe.
@@Guitar6ty There's a huge difference in the gap between them. russia's situation is catastophically worse due to the size of that gap.
Is deeply concerned over a population crisis... proceeds to invade a major country in a massive war of attrition.. This is the equivalent of living in a forest with anxiety of wildfires - and then go on to light a match and set fire to your house.
He thought he would take over Ukraine in a few weeks. Or he would never have tried.
Now he can't quit or he will lose power.
Thats a death sentence for the lil killer..
@@VajrahahaShunyata No, he could indeed quit & use proproganda to say it was a victory & the russians would just eat it up like they are still doing as ukraine invades kursk
@@Thunder103093 Yeah, belarus leader already said that ukraine is already "de-nazified", most likely to trying to give Putin a excuse to leave the war.
His stupidity and bad decisions are going to go down in history as the greatest blunders ever made. Think what russia threw away to have this war. It takes a special kind of stupid to do that.
@@Thunder103093 Exactly
So Russia is taking land but can't fill the land with people. Putin truly is a master strategist 😂
I mean, Russia still is the Ninth most populous country on earth. They're hardly "running out" of people, unless so is Europe, and China, and East Asia, and... It's a bit hyperbolic, even more so when you fail to include the absolute DEMOGRAPHIC COLLAPSE taking place inside...wait for it...Ukraine.
I have another theory. Putin is an avowed "honorary Nazi" as he likes to say, he grew up working for ex-Nazi officers in Germany as a liaison between the Russian occupation government and his families gang (Who were ironically selling Soviet war stockpiles for cash and tattling on rivals to the KGB for political credit). His whole life was spent as a gangster, a Nazi, and a saboteur of the Soviet state... I wonder if he is completing an anti-bolshevik plan to depopulate Russia by any means for his Nazi ideals?
Многоходовочка.
Well, not having enough land has not been a problem for Russia for the last 300 years. You would imagine that they try to improve the economy instead of getting more land, but no...
It ALREADY couldn't fill its land with people! That's the most insulting thing about their expansionism. They can't inhabit, govern, or exploit most of the territory they already controlled!
To peasant farmers, children are essential assets. To urban dwellers they are expensive pets.
Ok zeihan 😂
Makes sense. Peasant children are traditionally put to work at an early age. Once they survived their first few years of life, they essentially began helping paying for themselves by helping with the crops and/or livestock.
City children? Varied from time and place (child labor laws weren't passed based purely on hypotheticals). Sometimes they were hired by factories and mines. Sometimes they weren't.
Expensive pets, or "pricey hobby". To the point!
of course comrade !!!
@@notmyrealname977Ok Ivan 😂
Who would want to bring children into a brutal, overbearing totalitarian police state?
Chinese parents and North Korean families would agree with you.
@@POEMS466
Someone crazy enough to believe the benefits...
Bloodymir KaPutin would want people to bring children into such a world. So far without much success.
Unfortunately the majority of Russians still support Putin.
Anyway, they will not have means to feed many children when they are still under sanctions.
@@issabeganovic8822 What alleged benefits?
I can’t think of a sadder country.
Kim Jong Un: 🙃
Great video. Shows how blind Russia is!
russia's biggest problem is their leader has absolute power and yet is an incompetent oaf.
Shhhhh
Don’t go up to any floor above 1 in a building.
@@Tigerman1138 Especially not in russia, the building will crumble.
Russians making threats at this point are hilariously impotent. Yeah right, like how you'd be done with your special operation in two weeks...oh sorry, a month... oh sorry, two months... oh sorry, a year, oh sorry.... two years....i'm sure you'll get them eventually as your economy continues to plummet.
I heard some Russian Helicopter pilots shot their own troops.
From Russia with LOL.
Thats not all,I've also heard they assigned that pilot to an infantry battalion as punishment.
The Russians are doomed. They cannot win a trick. Everything they touch turns into a disaster.
Yep,
Ya both heard right...
Tip've a pretty yuuge iceberg, that one.
Probably thought they were civilians.
Russian scientists: Mr. Tsar Putin? A word? We are running out of people!
Tsar Putin: "let's start a war, people will flee and others will end on the front"
Me: Russian logic is something else
It's a problem of incentive. Russia needs the people, trade relations and a more open and equal society. But the people in power, Putin most of all, don't get anything out of a prosperous and democratic Russia.
So he started this war to cement his legacy and use the military as long as he still got it. The people might as well not be there if they don't work in hydrocarbon production or the military industrial complex.
@@esprit101 - the nature recourses have been a curse kind of, where the money come in to the country and the population is not needed, but also, there must be something seriously wrong with the mentality of russian people, they give the impression of being zombies, with no will of themselves
One worry of mine is that in years to come those same scientists may propose to Putin (or an equally bad successor) that Russia begin creating artificial wombs to allow the state to remedy the child deficit by raising children on its own, without relying on ordinary reproduction by the citizens. In such a case, the leader might not choose to ignore them, since millions of people owing their very lives to the state and its leader is a dictator's fondest dream.
dumbest comment on YT
People, just like animals don't breed when they live in captivity. Freedom is the antidote.
Not always freedom is the antidote, but yeah i agree with you
By the look of Putin's face lately, I think he knows that he isn't winning.
I noticed it too...
@VajrahahaShunyata His look and demeanour says it all.
Which Putin? Saddam had 3 Saddams with 1991 cosmetics. Don't trust a total psychopath with a country - not even an orange one.
Yeah, because "losing" produces headlines like this: "Over the past week, the Russian army has captured an area of about 80 square kilometers and seized control of the settlements of Mykolaivka, Zhelanne, Orlivka, Lysychne, Ivanivka and Svyrydonivka - Russia’s most significant military advance since May."
Why are the Russians gaining so quickly, you ask? The costly and strategically irrelevant "invasion" of a tiny sliver of Kursk Oblast: "Based on the intensity of the assaults, it can be assumed that the Russian army intensified their attacks in this area after they realized that the main part of the Ukrainian reserves was engaged on ANOTHER section of the front,” said Alexey Alshanskiy of the Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT), an independent organization that conducts open-source investigations of the Russian military. (Care to guess where those Ukrainian defenders abandoned Ukrainian territory for? LOL I'll give you one guess!)
@@junkscience639780 sq kilometers is irrelevant in the context of Ukraine taking 1250 sq km of Russian territory. There is a river around this territory and Ukrainians have dug in. Russia will be unable to retake it without apocalyptic casualties
"We have a lot of people" and "mothers will give birth to new ones" - quotes attributed to Stalin. But at that time the USSR included Ukraine, Belarus, the Baltic states, and various "-Stans" from Central Asia.
They also controlled the nations of the Warsaw pact, which included Poland, Czechoslovakia, E. Germany, etc., and were rather formidable militarily. That's part of the reason that the scare tactic that Russia seeks war with NATO nowadays has always rubbed me the wrong way -- especially since NATO has gone the opposite way and gained a bunch of strong new members. Russia attacked Ukraine because it was unaligned. A rather sickly wildebeest, alone without a herd. A wildebeest they thought might partly enjoy being eaten. After that they perhaps hoped to absorb Moldova or one of the Stans of which you spoke. Still worth opposing these plans. But lies aren't good, and really weren't needed.
@@polarvortex3294 Russia attacked Ukraine because it was a direct existential threat to the Putin regime. Ukraine pushed out a Russian puppet placed directly by Putin, held internationally monitored and administered democratic elections, culled a huge number of corrupt Russian oligarchs and snapped off their siphons from the Ukrainian economy, they forced out the Russian regular army thugs that were propping up the regime, and then once Russia invaded Crimea, they had the absolute Gall to resist and cause embarrassment to the Putin regime by making it so Crimea was an unstable base of expansion and resisted all attempts at political domination. Ukraine was slowly cutting off trade dependence on Russia and expanding to European, African trade opportunities (Including grain and gas which threatened Russian monopolies). Plus Kyiv has always been the political, cultural, and religious heart of the Soviet and particularly Russian states. If Kyiv changed to a democratic, EU aligned, free press state, then modern Russians might be compelled to follow suit, because Russians were always called Kyiv Rus for a reason.
"Hidden"? Mark Steyn wrote about Russia's demographic collapse in 2006. It gets better. The Russian Federation's Muslim nations are growing in population, which means that the Russian Federation is trending Muslim.
Yeah, Chechens has not forgotten how they were treated...they and dagestan will want their lands back and they are going to get it back because they have the population, unlike Russian elite.
@@markoliimatainen2565 Chechens will never get "their" land back because "they" are living in a society with a bunch of mafia-like clowns as leaders. No chechen will be free if their elites try to secede from russia. The chechen peasants will be ruled and robbed by the same clowns.
@@markoliimatainen2565 And that's just two of them.
8 children per woman?! Yeah good luck with that
All while working on oil rigs and building dams.
Good god!
It was the old way, but NOT A CHANCE today.
@@Tigerman1138 Yep. The "old way" involved hideous infant & maternal mortality, so those 8 kids wouldn't all live to adulthood, & a lot of women wouldn't survive 8 childbirths anyway. It's not like that in modern Russia, even for the poorest people.
@@beth7935 I agree. It sounds like settlers on the American frontier along Oregon Trail: Have 8
2 die from malnutrition
1 taken by Apache to raise as their own
2 die from malaria
1 from a snake bite or fever, drowning, typhoid
2 make it…and who knows what will happen in wilderness once they arrive?
Another good video, appreciate thr information!
This is what happens when you treat young adults as ammunition
Instead of blowing billions on war putler could have spent that money on his own ppl
and increase the living standard for all instead of a chosen few maybe then ppl would
stay in the country and have more kids
He is doing exactly the same thing as the UK and most of Europe.
@@Guitar6ty ....Not at all lmao....Taking in immigrants and refugees from other countries is NOT invading another country to try and "absorb" their population. You are insane.
@@Guitar6ty Nah buddy good luck selling that having immigrants and refugees welcomed into your country to continue growing despite people choosing not to have children is the same as literally invaDING A FOREIGN COUNTRY to try to "absorb" the population you wackjob.
@@VVattoo he doesn't care about people, he thinks he's a tsar and everyone is just a slave to him.
And now there is a serious discussion within russian propaganda that 18 year old conscripts should be fighting in Kursk region as this is actual russian territory and is their duty to defend the motherland.
It’s like most things in nature, if the environment is conducive the people and country will prosper. Under a dictatorship a decline is inevitable !
Sure you need people to have kids. But for those in Russia that might consider building a family, who would want to raise or start a new family in an environment like this???
Western society is worse...
Atleast there you sacrifice your son for the country,
Rather than on the alter of wokeness thats rampant in the west.
@@The_Good_Captain CAP, west is superior
@@The_Good_Captain'My son may be dead but thankfully he hated the gays until the end'
Yeah, I think I'll stick with 'wokeness', thank you very much.
@@esprit101 "Wokeness" (not a real word) is comparible to awareness. It beats voluntary benightedness for sure.
@@The_Good_Captain LOL!
The west is composted of rich first world countries with excellent living standards and human right.
Neo-fascist ruSSia is a frozen third world toilet who's living standards are terrible even by third world standards.
For comparison, Bangladesh has much higher life expectancy, a fraction of the violent crime / murder / rape and a tiny, tiny fraction of the HIV prevalence.
Even Bangladesh is better than third world ruSSia.
Thanks for all the amazing content! Keep up the great work!
And China is patiently waiting for the right moment, I'm sure
Yes, they will take a part of Russia at the right moment, for sure!
There's already a "sneak invasion" ongoing.
Many Chinese workers and such have been moving into North Eastern Russia the recent years.
China playing the long game as with Tibet.
Love Icarus project fighting Russian disinformation and bringing truth to yootoob. Bravo!
My favorite Phonk artist, Kaito Shoma, fled from russia to the UAE right after the invasion first happened, so even I know of someone who fled while the fleeing was good from that damn failed state.
When i was in Vietnam last year, i saw a Russian man working at a local tourist attraction serving food.
All because of one person's ego. Insanity!
but he's genius at the same time (ironic, right?).....for instance imagine you are the ruler of your home and within that home is a good person that agrees with your every thought but there's one dweller that is a thief (to the front lines), one that is constantly dissenting (to the front lines), others that might dare to protest (to the front lines), those that might be my enemy (to the front lines)......WHAT A BLISSFUL LIFE, RIGHT!? I'm GOD in my world! worshp me or TO THE FFFFFRONT LINES!
@@KennyHendrick-px1xr I suspect this is part of the Reason Putin's been cool with the human-wave-type of tactics used by his commanders. Not sure he really wants hundreds of thousands of hardened veterans returning from the war who don't especially love him much.
@@KennyHendrick-px1xr From a purely strategit aspect, having rebels infiltrate strategic positions in Ukraine and then claim "independence" and their "desire to wish to join russia" was an excellent way to gain land without a direct war. It was when he escalted it that it became senseless. Trump called him a genius based on that, before he openly declared war. He said he was a very cunning tactic to get what he wants, not that it was a good thing.
But whatever, I guess you want the dude who touched his neice in the showers they took together and voted against segregation and gave a passioante speech about not wanting his kids to be in school with other colors. He's much better, right? Lol. TDS is definitely a real thing.
@@Skabb-eg4oy What is TDS and who is this shower person you speak of (can I get these photos you say are available? I'm assuming you already have a copy to validate your claim, or have seen them at very least). HOWEVER if you are going to be a russian (usually incorporating circular reasoning laying blame on others when guilty themselves, usually integrating some sort of distraction or divide-and-conquer tactic by misdirecting targets to look instead at nazis, nato, ukrainians, booogiemen, etc.), then rest assured I've already had my share of that side of the story.
Putler wanted Ukraines' citizens under his rule ... and their Military ... and the factories and mines
This war was supposed to be swift. They weren't prepared to last this long. The only reason why it has lasted this long is Putin's "determination", which means his pride and desperation.
I also wonder how the rampant alcoholism contributes to the population decline. It is a factor in the "hopelessness scale," but is it statistically significant?
If you pass out early every day you probably won't pass on your genes
@@Kevin-bi9nf The song by the Kennedys sums it up well 🤣
Check the male life expectancy for your answer.
Russian bots are running overtime with this one xD
They are in panic overdrive over Kursk.
They wish they were all actually bots. If they make an extra 100 posts they get a packet of beet seeds for their kitchen garden.
What a sad story about a land with so many resources and resourceful people.
Great stuff!
Anyone having visited Russia (before february 2022) might had seen two Russia: Moscow/St-Petersbourg, where is the money and the all other areas, very poor.
The reason why Putin's actions are so mind-blowing is because Putin is very small and he was always scared of how big Russia is. When you adopt the idea that Putin is an enemy of Russia, all his actions make perfect sense. He will be in piece with Russia when it will be of acceptable size for Putin (which is half of North Korea by territory because Jong Un's surface area is double the size of Putin's).
Be sure to check out these videos related to this episode:
Russia is Literally Running Out of Everything (Tanks, Planes, People…): ua-cam.com/video/pUW_4AusgGk/v-deo.html
Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem: ua-cam.com/video/wQDpN4MWDPc/v-deo.html
You seem to find very flattering images of Putin. He became at least 40 years older since 2022.
Fun fact: in the coronavirus year or shortly after (I suppose it was 2020), RIA News came up with a beautiful phrase "negative growth of population". There are other words in russian to express population decline, but all of them were clearly UNACCEPTABLE for Putin (which is the only consumer of news that matters in Russia because he is the only citizen in Russia who has rights)
Thanks for the reminder. I did watch _"Russia Has a BIG Energy Problem"_ and was very pleased with it. A very good production. The one on russia's military hardware problems was put on my "to watch later" list, I'll try to find time tonight. Thanks for informative, well rounded videos.
Honestly, we got to add though that due to this invasion, Ukrainian's demographic problem became even worse than Russia's.
Putin also sees conquering territory as a means to increase his population.
The West urgently needs to bring more support to Ukraine and get rid of those endless red lines.
Slava Ukraini
as a ukrainian, even before the war our demographic was really bad but now its even worse
yea. even if ukraine wins and gets pre 2014 border. we'll see a depopulated east and crimea even 100 years in the future. just how we can still tell apart what used to be germany in poland since the population density in those areas is generaly lower then then poland side. even more so there will likely be a stripe of basicaly no population on the long standing contact lines since everything around there is bombed into rubble :/
@@UruSxs9 shouldnt you be on the front lines? not on the internet.. tsk tsk
Shouldn’t you be at school? tsk
@@czechvirusS This another reason why Ukraine should eventually merge with the rest of Europe and not try to exist on its own.
This is excellent stuff. Wow! Good video.
The footage with empty strollers, is from Ukraine. They were placed in Lviv’s old town on March 18 2022 to symbolize the children killed in the ongoing russian invasion. I don't think it's appropriate to use this footage in the video about russian problems with having children.
It brings into question the rest of the content.
@@karlyoung1713 - Which makes me regret even watching it. What a waste.
Wait. Who's going to make all the vodka then🤔?
Russia’s biggest problem is that it is Russia.
Yes, in the sense that Russia has been a massive land empire for so long, it's people can't conceive of it being something else.
The second biggest problem? That Russia is full of Russians.
'How long will they tolerate it'? Until they cease to exist, obviously.
10:22 what an absolut depressive work environment...
Imagine getting up every morning just to arrive here
At the 45 second mark this video makes a serious error. It asserts, "You see, since the collapse of the Soviet Union, in 1991, the population of Russia has been plummeting..." Actually, long before the USSR fell apart the population of the Russian SSR was declining, due to low birth rates. The population of ALL the republics of the USSR that were mainly ethnically European, were declining. The entire population of the USSR was still growing as the fertility of the muslim people in the Eastern republics was very high.
Years prior to the USSR falling apart I read an article that named the month and year the Soviet Union would transition from a population that was more than 50 percent ethnically European, to one where ethnically European people would be a minority. It speculated on massive impacts to the USSR of this demographics revolution.
Of course the USSR collapsed before it was struck by this demographics revolution.
Anyhow, Russia's demographic problems didn't begin in 1991.
I think the war started in 2014. Also I want the peoples of both Russia and Ukraine to have PEACE.
Beyond the conflict in Ukraine, the quality of life in Russia is pretty bad overall. Which is also a driving factor for many young Russian's to leave the country. The better their education, talents and financial background the more likely they are to exit Russia for life in a Western nation.
Population decline can mean lower housing prices due to lower demand, increased food availability if same land use etc. My favourite is more space for natural areas and wildlife as less pressure from people. I honestly see several benefits to far less people on the earth, the capitalism focus on economic growth is kinda what communism was against?
the world would do fine if the population would be max 5 billion.
take for example African nations that have food shortages year after year, that should be an indication that those nations have more people than the nation can support. and thus those nations shouldn't grow anymore (population wise) and should try to reduce their population.
same with small nation that are running out of land to put their people.
the human population can't keep growing we need to accept that.
I've often felt the same way about the earth having fewer people. But unfortunately, the nations of this world still have many strong rivalries and clashes of power and influence where having a large population is advantageous. For that reason I'd feel uncomfortable with America declining in population. Indeed I once saw a book on a thrift store shelf shelf called "One Billion Americans," written by a person who thought along the same lines and felt a big population increase would be for the best for us. Also, the plight of Europe goes to show that a population decline can result in one's culture being swamped by immigrants if the will to protect that culture is not strong. It's tough... The way this world works there are lot of nice things we could have & neat things we could do if everyone was chill and not greedy for wealth and power or simply out for themselves. 🌄🦆🐠🏌♀🏂
@@ChristiaanHW "same with small nation that are running out of land to put their people."
The Dutch solved that one.
@@apveening unfortunately we stopped after Flevoland.
yes we extended the Port of Rotterdam, but by now we should have made a 13th province and extended our land into the North Sea if we want to keep growing and also keep the Dutch vibe/way of live.
@@sjl197 Russian population density is very low already. Housing prices won't decline cause the remaining population will relocate to major cities, where the prices will grow.
The Russian population deserve the wealth of Russia, It's not for just the few.
That applies to most of the world under the corporation slave system.
Most of the world don't have the space, the Oil, Gas, resources that Russian has. And Certainly not controlled by one person Mr P.
@@johnkeen2345in case of Russia, "space" means "huge mass of unproductive land". It is a burden rather than an asset.
The frustrating thing is that if Russia just didn't invade it's neighbors, it would be one of the richest countries in the world.
Not to say it's people would be much better off, all that wealth would likely go into the pockets of the oligarchs.
So they will get rid of themselves.
Darwin’s theory of evolution, only the smartest survive.
In 2011 Russia's birthrate actually went above replacement. This was in large part attributed to hope for the future - many at that time still believed that Russia may still become a democracy as Putin gave up power to Medvedev. It quickly dropped below replacement in 2012 when Putin returned, and cratered far below replacement following the Donbas War, and has only gotten worse since 2022. There is no man more responsible for Russia's population collapse than Putin, and if had been a decent, honorable leader and let himself be succeeded this would not be a problem.
The same is true in every "developed" nation. Turns out that heavily taxing every last penny out of your population, forcing women to work to stay afloat, to make line go up, is a terrible long-term strategy.
The situation you describe makes me mad in a way. The cavemen had to struggle and live harsh lives or they would starve or lose the fight to survive. Now, a million years later we're about in the same boat.
@@polarvortex3294 It's because too many people are followers. A week ago, the factory I work at made a change that increased the labor of a shift by nearly three times, but expected the same production numbers. The amount of "it is what it is" and "nothing I can do about it" and "that's just how it is" I heard as I spoke up and pointed out the flaws in the system, the people getting hurt, the impossible standard, eventually had other employees repeating it and eventually everyone just slowed down to an adjusted 1/3rd of production with the attitude of "you can't fire the whole company, dummy.", but they sure weren't going to do that until someone shook them out of their depressed apathy and reminded them they are actually the ones in control.
It worked. Management didn't last a week, day 3 they were hardballing saying they would fire those that couldn't keep up. I pointed out they already have an employee shortage and that was a bluff and that'd be just as soon closing their doors. I said this in a sly way indirectly to management any time they were around by having casual conversation with other workers about how every line is complaining about having no people, and that if they lose enough they wont be able to recover and the company will shut down, and making conditions worse in the factory would only accelerate their current issue.
People just have to stand up to the few. Even now, our entire system? The one the few in the government control, making the many miserable? We could get rid of them in a month. Most of the figureheads in a particular afternoon if we wanted to bad enough. We could decide how our farms run, we could decide we grow more food instead of artificially limiting it so that we can sell it to other nations at a higher price. We could. -I- Cannot. But if enough of -us- stand up at once there is no stopping it.
Putin: 'Russia is running out of people! This is big problem!'
Also Putin: *Starts a war with a neighbor and continues to utilize human wave tactics against that neighbor, who has modern weaponry*
I've heard people say Putin is a smart man. Yeah, I don't see it, either...
"Russia's biggest problem"? There's no such place as "Russia". Maybe that. 🤔
... What?
colonial empire that should never exist in the first place
@@disastrousduckling I hope to god youre not a American/Aussie because pot calling kettle black if so.
@@disastrousduckling I don't think you have a colony when a new land is connected to your old land and you take pains to fully absorb the new land into your country, moving the borders outward. Seems like you have an empire then.
@@polarvortex3294 yeah, exactly that's why I wrote colonial empire. I should use quotes though because at this point everyone knows it's a gas station with a flag which pretends to be an empire. Or ISIS, but everyone's drunk (and ISIS had Toyotas while russian use golf cars, just realized it ;)). Nonetheless, relation to other nations that this weird thing known as russian federation includes, is pure exploitation.
What a depressing place
No culture should disappear. Especially one as old as the Russian one. But natural selection is an all-powerful force.😮
Short of men, money and war equipment- no sympathy.
Not to mention common sense.
Truthfully caustic analysis as always. Thank you again.
It’s easy to point and laugh, but do remember that ordinary russians are mostly victims of their awful ruler. I truly hope their elderly are not allowed to starve while the silovici still have billions in their coffers
I recommend “That Man Is My Brother” by Thomas Mann
I would add some context to this in that most countries outside of Africa have birth rates below the replacement rate as well. South Korea and China are actually about 1 child per woman. Again though those countries aren't throwing their populations away in a war. Many western countries also are able to supplement their birthrates with immigration which is something that I doubt Russia is able to do right now.
RU is indeed looking like a future vassal state of the CCP, the new visas won't help. This should be good for Australia, as our Indian cousins will side with us imho. There's nothing for India in a CCP run bloc. Thanks from Canberra 🇦🇺
The key way to reduce the fertility rate of a country is to educate women and give them economic opportunities and rights. However, reversing that doesn’t seem to work, much to the chagrin of regressives.
Oh come on, the World economic forum says the earth needs to depopulate to sustainable levels. Russia is just ahead of the curve!
Regarding the 1923 statistic you stated, is that statistic discussing ethnic Russians or Soviets? Soviets would also include Ukrainians, Belarusians, and Kazakhs. That’s important to note given that Russia consistently says they lost 27 million people in WWII, but the main affected ethnic groups were Belarusians and Ukrainians, given that the Germans only occupied a rather small amount of territory where ethnic Russians resided (now Russia). As such, historians have argued that Russia only lost 3-5 million people in WWII, and that Belarus and Ukraine lost between 8-10 million people respectively (not even including the Kazakhs, Kalmyks, Chechens, etc…)
But trump said Putin was a "genius" for invading Ukraine. How is this happening 🤷🏾♂️😂?
Because trump is a fool who is in love with the strong man image.
Trump thought Putin's recognition of the independence of the eastern parts of Ukraine and Putin's pledge to support their supposed quest for freedom was ingenious, since this maneuver seemed to give the Russians a cloak of legitimacy to cover their armed forces' entrance into Ukraine's eastern provinces. And indeed at the time it seemed as thought Putin had outsmarted the West again, which is what was really ticking Trump off. I mean, if you remember, the breakaway provinces of Ukraine created names for their supposed new countries: "The Democratic Republic" of whatever... So theoretically, after this, Russia would not be entering Ukraine at all. If you Google "Trump called Putin a genius" you'll soon find a good article by Politco which quotes Trump and explains this. The comment by Trump didn't age well, though, because this clever maneuver by Putin (which really would have blunted the reaction of the West imo) was followed very quickly by the all-out invasion of Ukraine, which was transparently aggressive, and which forced the West to react far more strongly than it otherwise would have. This caused the original meaning of Trump's words to be lost and transmuted in public perception into praise of the invasion, which it was not.
If I was advising Trump, I would urge him not to praise any action of any dictator, even if his words were meant as an evaluation of the cleverness of the dictator's tactics only, since such praise could be easily misconstrued, and certainly would be exploited by his political opposition.
@@polarvortex3294… Trumps words have been twisted like no other person in the world….
@thomasmyers9128 Covfefe!
@@thomasmyers9128 - As were Adolf Hitler's. And look at how that worked out.
Russia is what Canada was called a hundred years ago: a raiload in search of a country. The difference is, Canada had and has a loyal and productive population all across the middle. Russia has a Moslem Middle and a Mongol Tip, with the occasional little village of Muscovy bureaucrats here and there along the rails.
Putin's stupid war against Ukraine, which he is very surprised to see himself losing, in just a personal, one-man effort to distract himself from the rality: Russia's prolem isn't just in all the old European "republics" the Soviets lost: it's everything east of the urals -- what the Tsars were able to amass only because the easterners couldn't take a cheap plane ride to civilization in the 1870s.
A super power huh? 🙄😒😑
"Fertility rates were much higher a hundred years ago"
Well, yeah. That's how people survived, when infant mortality was high. If only one in ten kids would live to be an adult, you had twenty kids. This whole "Fertility rates are lower than death rates" thing is a recent thing - and is correlated with wealth and comfort of living. Places in the world with extreme poverty have much, much higher fertility rates.
PRC has a ton of extra people they dont need. maybe they can send some over ;)
There population issues are larger and even worse than Russia's.
They can also accept a lot of engineers and doctors from Africa 😀
Actually the PRC is facing exactly the same demographic crisis.
PRC has the same or even worse demographic issues.
So many devoted country’s have the exact same problem. South Korea Japan. China, United states and at least 1/2 of European countries. Although this war is definitely making Russian issue acutely worse
Poor Putin lost specifics of social hardship. How does Putin saying demographics of Russia is the problem instead of saying preaching hostilities is a reason for demographic discord?
1.5 million dead, injured, or fled.
Many old. Few born, fewer married, and problems multiplied.
China is facing similar issue.
There are a lot of people in western countries who want to elect a strong leader. Why don't they move to Russia? 🤔
From the frying pan and directly into the fire? LOL, I'll pass.
Strong leaders in a democracy do not equal wanting a dictatorship 🙄
@@VajrahahaShunyata atleast you wont hear "if you dont respect me, youre a "ist-phobe" in ruski-land, then visited by the police and locked up for not calling a man a woman.
Exactly AOC and the squad are good for Russia , all these demonstrations against USA get out and move to Russia
@@The_Good_Captain You shitting me? The country that jails people for "offending religious feelings", protesting and criticizing the war? GTFO Ivan.
Great video. When a country’s entire national ethos is is so heavily invested in being the world’s biggest assholes, it’s hard to see any other way.
Lots of Muslim refugees are available .
Moscovites are extremely racist...
Putin already bringing millions of muslims in
Well India is one of Russia's best friend, Indian which is overpopulated will go to immigrate to Russia .
bye
Then Russia will turn into 💩
Not likely ruzzians are also very Racist they are not going to tolerate a large amount of brown people moving into their country.
But even India is not over populated now
Immigration? But who would want to go to Russia if they had any idea what awaited them?
yeah this isnt a problem anywhere else good video man
This isn't just a Russia problem... the entire west is fucked.
The US has a growing population.
Been hearing that for the past 50 years. Also, the dollar is going to collapse any day now. 😁
@@itheuserfirst3186 most of corporations are based in the US especailly tech, cope more. USD rocks and Russian Rubble is in Rubbles no one wants it
@@RabbitShirak All that growth is thanks to migrants. Every single western country currently has a birthrate that is below replacement, and since we're all still mortal, require constant migration to offset the inevitable population decline caused by a below replacement birthrate.
Which sounds like a great solution on paper, but is in fact a terrible solution in reality. The native populations are steadily replaced with foreigners (mathematically this is true despite how many try to argue otherwise), and those foreigners do not necessarily share the same beliefs, values, ideals, motivations, etc as the natives. As a result, the west will inevitably stop being the west.
the entire west isn't sending their men into poorly led assaults against strong defenders and keep repeating untill an advance is made....in just 2,5 years 600k casualties is absolutely brutal
It would be great if you would link to the studies and sources used in this video, so we can use them later on ourselves.
Do like rest of Europe, import millions of doctors and engineers from afrika and the middle east
They hate blacks and language barrier.
The issue is, you’re competing for the same pool of people. You need to offer something as a country if you want people to come. In terms of public services, housing quality/value, schools, culture and tolerance Russia simply can’t compete. People in those countries aren’t dumb, they have the internet and they know where they can get the best working conditions, pay and quality of life. And it ain’t Russia.
@@Whatshisname346 : ....And it aint Russia.
Its not any country in the fecking west either lmao
Maybe SK or Japan... maybe
@@Whatshisname346 mass immigration of criminals aren't good.
Russia used to do it with smaller surrounding countries, including Islamic ones
Now those at the top have sent those who got russian citizenship into the trenches while some of them also try to cut down on the immigration completely because they're trying to be as nationalistic as possible after a few acts of terrorism taking place in different cities
So I'm not sure how viable it is of a strategy currently
There is a certain self-correction in that as a country gets poorer life expectancy falls and so pensions become less of a drain.
Kleptocracy does not work for everyone.
After the collapse of Soviet Russia, they were in very bad shape economically. Western Europe and the US reached out and offered Russia the opportunity to join NATO. Imagine how much better things would be for the Russian people (and Ukrainians, Chechens, Georgians, Azerbaijanis, etc..). All of this is self inflicted... the world could have been so much better off.
I have to wonder if Putler will make birth control illegal. I can see a number of DEEPLY unsavory things he might try along these lines.
Good video, thank you.
Excellent.
Advisor: "There's a big problem in our population demographics."
Pootin: "Big you say?"
Adviror: "Yes"
Pootin: "That certainty doesn't do! I must exacerbate it from big to absolutely unmanageably colossal!"
subbed!
Another factor is that world is trying very hard to stop using their main export - fossil fuels.
'Developed' countries, which Russia is apparently one of, need constant immigration from countries with large labour pools. However, nobody wants to go to Russia. Only the poor people in countries that directly border Russia would consider moving there. That's why people make dangerous and expensive journeys of thousands of miles to Europe when they could travel a quarter of that distance to Russia.
Factories cannot operate half-staffed. That means one closed. Who says they can move what is left to another place?
3:09 - 3:14 Hey! Those are the four horsemen of the apocalypse right there.