We're going to experience a population bottleneck event.
The few people who care enough to reproduce and are smart enough to not trust vaccines and the WEF might be able to repopulate these countries eventually.
Industrial and post-industrial mass-society has been an abysmal failure. We need to bring back homesteads. It's the only way.
Actually industrialization has been an enormous success that has lifted billions out of poverty, greatly increased life expectancy, reduced birth rate, GREATLY reduced environmental destruction. The problem is and always has been giving these private Bankster Psychopaths the incredible welfare bum gift of money creation. This has enabled them to virtually takeover the entire World, and since they are nutball, elitist Psychopaths, this is not going well for the 99% of the population. They are trying to create a feudal society.
No actually its known as a neo-feudal society or often a techno-feudal society. There is obviously no personal connection between the serf and his overlord since the overlords are International Banksters and Financial Blackrock, Vanguard Grifters who have no human connection to any of us.
Homesteads, Jesus. You couldn't support more than a billion people with homesteads and it is all a fantasy anyway because even if some shithole like North Korea remains industrialized, their tanks will rollover your homesteads in about 2 weeks. And we will be back to a new cycle of industrialization. All you would create is a destructive cyclical society that goes from one extreme to another. Industrialization is the path forward and it is unstoppable except by total destruction of humanity (and most of nature). Best thing is to improve on its efficiency in the same way natural organisms have improved their efficiency, the pinnacle of efficiency is the Tropical Rainforest. We can approach that level, possibly even surpass it eventually.
Planetary Rebirth, you're darn tooting. Mars is a basically a life-bomb waiting to explode. We humans can light that fuse. Bioforming Mars will be the greatest achievement in the history of Earth life since the Cambrian Explosion. The greatest act of creativity in all of human history, nothing else comes remotely close to it. Reproduction of Gaia, Mother Earth, a wonderful thing, almost divine.
The end of industrialization is not nigh, that's nonsense. There is no stopping industrialization, you could knock it down deliberately to some degree, like the Malthusian, Psychopath, Parasite, Welfare-Bum, Bankster creeps are doing, but it will inevitably rebound. The nations that don't industrialize and improve upon that will falter, fail and be absorbed by modern nations. The key to industrialization is to replace fossil/biomass with nuclear energy. And improve the efficiency of the utilization of all resources. Pretty straightforward actually. Mother nature has been following that path for several hundred million years (the efficiency part). It works.
Aug 2, 2022·edited Aug 2, 2022Liked by Edward Slavsquat
USSR doubled its population between 1922 (the year it was formed) and 1991 (last year of the country) from 140 million to 290 million. In the post Soviet period Ukraine lost roughly 40% of the population from 52 million down to roughly 35 million, while Russia only experienced a slight decline from 148 million in 1992 to 145 million in 2022. Yet, if you read any Western sources they call Soviet regime genocidal. White is black and black is white, Orwellian "truth" is everywhere, but I'm not surprised anymore.
On Russia's current demographic crisis, the real issue is well beyond injections, healthcare and things of this nature. Talking to my relatives in Russia and Ukraine, the healthcare services, including access to medicine, are way more accessible there than they are in US and Canada where medical mafia made the situation with healthcare access and personal choice practically impossible. The issue that Russia faces today is the climate of uncertainty about the future that stops young couples from having more children. The cost of raising a child according to "material standards" imposed by society is very high, compared to income levels. Also there is a policy by construction companies to build huge condominium complexes with tiny apartments that don't promote the idea of procreation. On the positive side I hear today more and voices within Russia that recognize current problems and propose solutions. Current situation of a break-up with the West is seen as an opportunity to fix Russian economic and social crisis that will result in better demographics.
The big problem Russia has is its Western Bankster owned Central Bank run by Elvira Mistress of the Dark. Her tight money policy has strangled the Russian economy while China using its Public owned banks and a loose money policy has achieved 8-15% REAL growth rates per year (not Western phony financialization growth rates) since 1984.
tight as her bra strap? Seems that strap needs to be loosened, and while we're at it, send in Cassandra Peterson to replace ECB chief and unpayable loan suckubus Christine Lagard...
The absence of a reasonably cheap and easy to obtain credit is a major, actually number one issue for Russian economy for sure. The likes of Nabiullina, Siluanov, Kudrin, Gref, Oreshkin and the rest of the liberal cadre in Russian economic government block do everything possible to stunt the growth of their country's economy, especially of the manufacturing sector. Does it have an impact on the demographic situation? Yes, it does, but still, factors I listed above have a greater impact. Part of Russian mentality is to make ends meet without borrowing money, so the liquidity starvation of the Russian economy doesn't have as deep of an impact as the IMF stooges in Russian government would want it to be.
I'm not talking about consumer credit. China, through public banks gives massive loans to develop productive and valuable industry. For example the People's Bank of China will give interest-free or very, very low interest loans to a textile manufacturer to build a giant solar cell or solar panel factory in yuan with an understanding that the loan need never be repaid. So solar factory sells low cost solar panels to US distributors which are bought with US tax$ and US gov't debt. Solar factory returns $US to the PBOC. So effectively the PBOC printed $US interest free, which even the US gov't can't do, funded with US debt. The PBOC returns yuan to the solar panel factory. This creates many high productive jobs and a massive solar supply chain in China. Funded by US debt. They don't do that in Russia.
They also do weird things like build entire cities, called ghost cities, way out in the boonies with hardly anyone living there. There is no profit to developers to build these, without any customers, its all done with interest free government loans that need never be repaid. So a giant industrial supply chain, including highly trained productive workforce is developed, which spills over into the industrial strength of the entire economy.
This is not how the criminals in the West do money creation. They do it with massive interest bearing debt from private banks to create money spent directly on consumers who produce nothing or scam artists who produce worthless solar or wind farms or Institutes of Wokeness, during a pandemic when productive industry and workers are locked down stupidly. And supply chains are totally broken. A recipe for rampart inflation combined with negative economic growth. Insanity except for the criminal Western Banksters who have nefarious motives. Russia is much more in tune with them than China.
Very informative, thanks. What about the Chinese pressure at the border? I've read that more and more Chinese (Han and others) were into Russian territory.
Bugey libre, there isn't really a Chinese pressure at the Russian border type of problem, especially over the last 2.5 years when it was China, first of all, that closed its borders to outside world that impacted not only Russian and other foreigners, but Chinese citizens as well. But even before the COVID insanity some population exchange between Russia and China, driven mostly by economic opportunities, was observed but considering the size of the population in China it was really minor. As it turned out the present borderline between Russia and China is more of a natural phenomena where going to the north of Amur river is too far north for most Chinese. Han are the people that appreciate warmer climes and easier living conditions than Russia can offer. Looking into the future, if in US State Department they will achieve their dream and Russia will be defeated and subdivided into 14 or more smaller states, Chinese will make their move and declare their rights of influence over the Eastern Siberian region, but before that time they prefer to simply buy Russian resources especially since Russian oligarchs and lesser businessmen are eager to sell them to China at a great discount!
It's frankly a spiritual issue in most countries. Especially among the wahmen. Do they want to work 9-5 in some cubicle farm so they can buy a nice Gucci handbag? Or do they actually love children and want to have a large family?
Oh well, it will work itself out eventually. Those who want to reproduce will and those who are ardent materialists won't.
The bigger the spread the higher the cost. Urban human piles (like ant piles) are much cheaper to build but they still command a pretty hefty market price. This is on one hand - super profits for the construction companies. But on the other hand we have people who were trained by the Soviet system to live in such conditions - massive concrete structures apartment blocks. For most urbanized Russians apartment living is a perfectly normal thing, so people really don't mind buying properties in this big and ugly structures. The only good thing about this approach is that it reduces urban sprawl to a much more limited area than here in US or Canada.
At a glance that site seems to be a pro-Russian resource. Nothing wrong with that, but I personally like resources like this blog by Riley Waggaman since it takes a more critical stance toward Russia.
Thank you. Riley's great but covers only some aspect of Russia, still it is the only place where I comment since these angles cannot be found anywhere else.
I also enjoy coming often to that blog because Riley is a journalist and he does his job, even if he can't afford to make real life inquiry. That must be frustrating for a guy of his caliber but still, he's on the level of James Corbett or Witney Webb when searching on the web. He goes beyond his frustration with his real writings like his "touristic report" on Georgia. His got a great style and his brightness is reflected in his sense of humour. He has moral quality, among which humility and modesty, which isn't easy when you are very talented and gifted.
Last, he is not a conspiracy theory.
Like French Éric Verhaeghe says about "complotiste or conspirationiste" (the French recent neologism for conspiracy theorist, because the concept didn't exist before a couple of years after 9/11 in France), "conspiracy theorist are those of see plots but think the ploters are all powerful, whereas they are not".
The Maçonic French République was born out of a conspiracy, so we know something about it.
Last and not least I come here because their are intellectually challenging commentators like you sir and some knowledgeable people with whom I learn.
On the same vein, I love Coffee and covid which is as funny and intelligent as Edward Slavsquat.
I'm with you on this (and many other things), Bugey libre! I think Riley's blog would be more popular would he be more of the complete spectrum Russia expert vs. focusing on just one limited subject. But we don't know who his sponsors are, if there are such people at all, and if there are, what are their real goals. I'm writing this with complete respect to Riley's work in the field of COVID, injections and digital enslavement field. Be it his calling or simply the circumstances, his excellent work deserves respect regardless. I'm afraid though that given Riley's exposure because of his blog and video interviews, he has gained some notoriety and some powerful people wouldn't want to see him back in the country, so his exile in "Cringy Casablanca" may last longer than he originally accounted for. Well, despite the everpresent hills Tbilisi is not the worst place to be in exile and today's technology allows him to be as informed about events in Russia as if he was there. I hope, however, he resolves his visa issues soon and gets back to his Moscow apartment!
First: Soviet statistics in many instances were pure fantasy and that is a proven fact.
Second: By the time the megalomaniac in Berlin declared war on Russia, between 10 and 20 million persons had already been killed. The situation was so dire that Stalin didn't publish demographic statistics during the whole 1940s because the population growth didn't match the expectations laid out in his plan....and didn't even publish the statistics from the last Soviet census from the 1930s...
Third: The Soviet Union underwent such a demographic destruction that its dreams of a global superpower were thwarted for decades and its effects could be felt well in the 70s and 80s.
Fourth: The Soviet Union included many other peoples that were not Russian at all (Kazaks, Tartars, etc.,) Many of those peoples due to their distance from the great Urban centers were able to remain relatively unscathed from the massacres, purges and were not the primary cannon fodder used by STalin during the first years of the war, a war in which approx. 25 million people died, unlike ethnic Russians who were the main victims of the regime.
Regarding the demographic crisis, I wouldn't rule out the injections impact, but the truth is that Russian spirit is almost dead, most of the young people are atheist or agnostics, therefore less prone to harbor hope and faith for the future or a purpose for their lives, ergo less children are conceived and born, less people are willing to marry, etc. etc.
Good luck with trying to rehabilitate Old communist and murderous totalitarian regimes...
"Yet, if you read any Western sources they call Soviet regime genocidal."
I am half-way through Gulag Archipelago, and he, Solzhenitsyn, says that between 1919 and 1959, approximately 62 million disappeared into the camps never to be heard from again. Is this not accurate?
Funny enough Solzhenitsyn's last name translates from Russian as "one who tells lies" - purely by coincidence, I'm sure. Imagine the situation - early 1945, Soviet Army is winning the war, but it is far from over. Germans mount fierce resistance as Soviet troops enter Central Europe and Germany itself. Chances to perish in the conflict are even higher than before as Soviet command hurries the offensive trying to capture more territory before allies (US, UK, Canada) do, to secure a better negotiations position with them after Germany capitulates. And here a young artillery officer at the Western front decides to write letters to his friends mocking Stalin and the Soviet high military commanders, proposing to organize clandestine cells to fight the regime, knowing perfectly well that letters from the front are perlustrated by security services and eventually he'll get caught, which indeed happened, and he got sentenced to 8 years in prison (literally labor camps) and got released for exemplary behavior ahead of finishing his sentence in 1952, one year before Stalin's death. The chances to die at the front back then were about one in two, and the chances to make it through camp were better nine in ten. Many in Russia suggest that the choice Solzhenitsyn made back then was a "self mutilation" of sorts, to get a jail term with a high probability of survival vs. being killed at war. Numbers of deaths in the labor camps that Solzhenitsyn presented in his books are not just exaggeration, but an extreme exaggeration and bare no relationship to reality whatsoever. For these reasons Solzhenitsyn is deeply disrespected in Russia today by the people, as opposed to liberal authorities, including Putin, that still think Solzhenitsyn was some kind of messiah. This is a long and complicated topic, I don't want to spend too much time on it here.
your tone in this piece is so different, much darker than usual. understandably. thinking that more injections are going to reverse population decline is like prescribing suicide to decrease the murder rate.
The iron irrefutable proof that Sputnik works just like the rest of the killer shots. On a separate note, I wonder if Chubais who is now suffering from Guillain-Barre, was jabbed with the domestic product, or if he got one of the Western ones?
Both. First Sputnik and then boosted with Pfizer (this is a rumor) when the sinister coward moved to his holiday house in Italy.
Notice that Chubais was NOT sanctioned by the west because in my opinion he has NO influence over the Kremlin decision makers. He was only given token figurehead jobs by the oligarchy power structure as a reward for their ill gotten riches. Chubais is a VERY hated man in Russia because he helped bring in 100s of CIA agents that created an oligarchy power structure in Russia that exists to this day. Even the TASS Russian news agency is controlled by oligarchs.
I suspect all countries are experiencing a dramatic drop in population. It's just a matter of who is honest enough to admit it. The causes (I believe) include -
Decades of vaccine poisoning causing childhood illnesses like autism, auto immune disorders and female infertility (this is deliberate, some vaccines secretly include chemicals to render women infertile),
The unravelling of the family unit leading to broken homes, child abuse and traumatised adults who can't raise a family of their own,
Oestrogen leaching into the waterways from the urine of women on the pill and plastics polluting the food chain, causing a drop in mens testosterone levels and low sperm counts,
Corporate farming producing foods that are saturated in weedkillers and have low nutritional value.
Basically modern people are being poisoned.
I'm coming to believe that the only countries that will survive World War III are those that can reverse this trend.
And to do this countries will have to -
Stand up to global criminal corporates like big pharma and the sick ideology of anti family, anti tradition and anti Christian values.
It's simple. Continue poisoning your population and die out, or throw the globalists out of your country and survive.
But ultimately it is the Davos gang of Bankster Psychopaths who are promoting this population reduction agenda, and it is malicious, devious and deliberate. And you ain't seen nothing yet. Just listen to these assholes, from their own statements:
From THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION by The Club of Rome 1991 "Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, "new enemies must be identified."[2] "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."[3]
"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest"
Paul Warburg, the International Banker testifying to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1950
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis."
David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive manager
Depopulation: "I Hope It Can Occur In a Civil Manner"
"The World can support something like a billion people, maybe two billion"
" i know in one way or another it's going to come back down so i don't hope to avoid that, I hope that it can occur in a civil way "
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long – We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller, Club of Rome, Sept. 23, 1994
“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will.
If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
from David Rockefeller’s autobiography ‘Memoirs’
" Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it. "
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
" The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. "
Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
" Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. "
Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
" A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation "
John Holdren Obama Science Czar & Rockefeller puppet
"In Nature organic growth proceeds according to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a master plan is missing from the process of growth and development of the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years from today it will probably be too late."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
UN Commission on Global Governance report
"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today's problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
Dr. Robert Muller, UN Assistant Secretary General
"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
Lester Brown, WorldWatch Institute
"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable."
Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
"All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
"The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."
Prof. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
"The resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion."
I just follow people on Substack, and haven't punished anything yet on the platform.
My personal blog Wikihospitals had a lot of blogs pre covid, many of them very critical of hospital errors and big pharma. I removed them because of fear of having my entire site taken down (Australia is now corporate/communist, like Canada). And also they were really irrelevant to the current situation.
great question. I'll investigate. To be honest, I think the vax is not even a top 5 factor in Russia -- but obviously there's no way to know. Time will tell, I suppose.
Because fuck them, this is our world, and it’s unbearably beautiful, and more than abundant enough for all of us to live long, happy, healthy lives. Don’t surrender to cynicism and apathy; fight, and fuck, and start a family, if only because that’s exactly what “they” don’t want you to do!
That's nonsense. Due to industrialization we have raised CO2 levels to a sufficient level to prevent the next ice age which would otherwise be beginning soon. During the last ice age the vast northern regions of the planet was buried under over a mile of ice and CO2 levels dropped to 180ppm, the lowest in the history of the Earth, at 150ppm plants die.
The only thing that will guaranteed severely damage our Earth's ecosystem is nutty eco-primitivist dogma that will cause complete devastation of the environment when billions of starving people with nothing to lose will burn, kill and destroy everything to survive. You are talking insanity.
No way, 400ppm CO2 on the way to 500ppm, the heat forcing of that much CO2 would easily prevent any glacier expansion, which is exactly what we are seeing. Glaciers are shrinking all over the world and Arctic sea ice is at historically very low levels, likely it will no longer be permanent in a decade or two. Greenland ice sheet is shrinking and coastal regions of the Antarctic ice cap are breaking up. No way another Ice age is possible apart from some extreme event like an large asteroid collision or supervolcano. The normal state of the Earth is no ice ages except for 90% of the past 2Myrs, likely do largely to the formation of the Himalayas. It's a wonderful thing.
Sorry man but the information and links given on that site contradicts yours and many relevant scientists follow it and regret the fact that it is always under attack. Maybe you should check it since it is always interesting to have contradicting info, especially in the present totalitarian moment.
No per capita energy is increasing in the world at a pretty study pace, except China (the most populous nation) is rising rapidly. It has been fairly stable in Western nations but there has been efficiency improvements and people don't travel as much, they like TVs, computers and video games. The end of industrialization is not nigh, that's nonsense. There is no stopping industrialization, you could knock it down deliberately to some degree, like the Malthusian, Psychopath, Parasite, Welfare-Bum, Bankster creeps are doing, but it will inevitably rebound. The nations that don't industrialize and improve upon that will falter, fail and be absorbed by modern nations. The key to industrialization is to replace fossil/biomass with nuclear energy. And improve the efficiency of the utilization of all resources. Pretty straightforward actually. Mother nature has been following that path for several hundred million years (the efficiency part). It works.
Geographical issues - are the Muslim republics not inflating the average statistics? Isn't the situation in Slavic Russia even worse?
Putin clearly has no serious plan to fix this. If he was willing to be less neoliberal, would be easy to incentivize childbearing in the context of his neo-Orthodox schtick. Is he really that beholden to neolib', or is there some geographical factor here too. Like maybe the decline is located in the ex-Soviet rustbelt that's got no future, and Putin only cares about the metropole. Rustbelt is dying a natural death from the elite pov.
Anyway whatever. The country is basically becoming North Korea with Mandatory Disillusionment instead of Juche. The vax is just a part of that.
Yes, it bothers me how Putin did EXACTLY what the Demons of Davos wanted by his EXTRAORDINARILY advantageous to their goals invasion of Ukraine. They are just f'in lovin it.
You can buy land in Siberia cheaply (sometimes free) and it will get you citizenship in 3 years? The price is far lower than in the West although of course it has still doubled in price for those of us in the West in the last 12 months. i.e. here's one story on it;
I don't take the significance of the figures too well. Not numerate enough. What is their import? Simply birth rate too low? Or deaths too high? Or people migrating away? Or what?
And overall are they simply in the same state as most of the western world?
We're going to experience a population bottleneck event.
The few people who care enough to reproduce and are smart enough to not trust vaccines and the WEF might be able to repopulate these countries eventually.
Industrial and post-industrial mass-society has been an abysmal failure. We need to bring back homesteads. It's the only way.
Actually industrialization has been an enormous success that has lifted billions out of poverty, greatly increased life expectancy, reduced birth rate, GREATLY reduced environmental destruction. The problem is and always has been giving these private Bankster Psychopaths the incredible welfare bum gift of money creation. This has enabled them to virtually takeover the entire World, and since they are nutball, elitist Psychopaths, this is not going well for the 99% of the population. They are trying to create a feudal society.
>They are trying to create a feudal society.
An honor-based society where loyalty to one's feudal lord is more important than money?
Is that really what our rulers are building, friend?
No actually its known as a neo-feudal society or often a techno-feudal society. There is obviously no personal connection between the serf and his overlord since the overlords are International Banksters and Financial Blackrock, Vanguard Grifters who have no human connection to any of us.
Homesteads, Jesus. You couldn't support more than a billion people with homesteads and it is all a fantasy anyway because even if some shithole like North Korea remains industrialized, their tanks will rollover your homesteads in about 2 weeks. And we will be back to a new cycle of industrialization. All you would create is a destructive cyclical society that goes from one extreme to another. Industrialization is the path forward and it is unstoppable except by total destruction of humanity (and most of nature). Best thing is to improve on its efficiency in the same way natural organisms have improved their efficiency, the pinnacle of efficiency is the Tropical Rainforest. We can approach that level, possibly even surpass it eventually.
Planetary Rebirth, you're darn tooting. Mars is a basically a life-bomb waiting to explode. We humans can light that fuse. Bioforming Mars will be the greatest achievement in the history of Earth life since the Cambrian Explosion. The greatest act of creativity in all of human history, nothing else comes remotely close to it. Reproduction of Gaia, Mother Earth, a wonderful thing, almost divine.
The end of industrialization is not nigh, that's nonsense. There is no stopping industrialization, you could knock it down deliberately to some degree, like the Malthusian, Psychopath, Parasite, Welfare-Bum, Bankster creeps are doing, but it will inevitably rebound. The nations that don't industrialize and improve upon that will falter, fail and be absorbed by modern nations. The key to industrialization is to replace fossil/biomass with nuclear energy. And improve the efficiency of the utilization of all resources. Pretty straightforward actually. Mother nature has been following that path for several hundred million years (the efficiency part). It works.
USSR doubled its population between 1922 (the year it was formed) and 1991 (last year of the country) from 140 million to 290 million. In the post Soviet period Ukraine lost roughly 40% of the population from 52 million down to roughly 35 million, while Russia only experienced a slight decline from 148 million in 1992 to 145 million in 2022. Yet, if you read any Western sources they call Soviet regime genocidal. White is black and black is white, Orwellian "truth" is everywhere, but I'm not surprised anymore.
On Russia's current demographic crisis, the real issue is well beyond injections, healthcare and things of this nature. Talking to my relatives in Russia and Ukraine, the healthcare services, including access to medicine, are way more accessible there than they are in US and Canada where medical mafia made the situation with healthcare access and personal choice practically impossible. The issue that Russia faces today is the climate of uncertainty about the future that stops young couples from having more children. The cost of raising a child according to "material standards" imposed by society is very high, compared to income levels. Also there is a policy by construction companies to build huge condominium complexes with tiny apartments that don't promote the idea of procreation. On the positive side I hear today more and voices within Russia that recognize current problems and propose solutions. Current situation of a break-up with the West is seen as an opportunity to fix Russian economic and social crisis that will result in better demographics.
The big problem Russia has is its Western Bankster owned Central Bank run by Elvira Mistress of the Dark. Her tight money policy has strangled the Russian economy while China using its Public owned banks and a loose money policy has achieved 8-15% REAL growth rates per year (not Western phony financialization growth rates) since 1984.
tight as her bra strap? Seems that strap needs to be loosened, and while we're at it, send in Cassandra Peterson to replace ECB chief and unpayable loan suckubus Christine Lagard...
"unpayable loan suckubus Christine Lagarde" Lol, you made my day...
The absence of a reasonably cheap and easy to obtain credit is a major, actually number one issue for Russian economy for sure. The likes of Nabiullina, Siluanov, Kudrin, Gref, Oreshkin and the rest of the liberal cadre in Russian economic government block do everything possible to stunt the growth of their country's economy, especially of the manufacturing sector. Does it have an impact on the demographic situation? Yes, it does, but still, factors I listed above have a greater impact. Part of Russian mentality is to make ends meet without borrowing money, so the liquidity starvation of the Russian economy doesn't have as deep of an impact as the IMF stooges in Russian government would want it to be.
I'm not talking about consumer credit. China, through public banks gives massive loans to develop productive and valuable industry. For example the People's Bank of China will give interest-free or very, very low interest loans to a textile manufacturer to build a giant solar cell or solar panel factory in yuan with an understanding that the loan need never be repaid. So solar factory sells low cost solar panels to US distributors which are bought with US tax$ and US gov't debt. Solar factory returns $US to the PBOC. So effectively the PBOC printed $US interest free, which even the US gov't can't do, funded with US debt. The PBOC returns yuan to the solar panel factory. This creates many high productive jobs and a massive solar supply chain in China. Funded by US debt. They don't do that in Russia.
They also do weird things like build entire cities, called ghost cities, way out in the boonies with hardly anyone living there. There is no profit to developers to build these, without any customers, its all done with interest free government loans that need never be repaid. So a giant industrial supply chain, including highly trained productive workforce is developed, which spills over into the industrial strength of the entire economy.
This is not how the criminals in the West do money creation. They do it with massive interest bearing debt from private banks to create money spent directly on consumers who produce nothing or scam artists who produce worthless solar or wind farms or Institutes of Wokeness, during a pandemic when productive industry and workers are locked down stupidly. And supply chains are totally broken. A recipe for rampart inflation combined with negative economic growth. Insanity except for the criminal Western Banksters who have nefarious motives. Russia is much more in tune with them than China.
Very informative, thanks. What about the Chinese pressure at the border? I've read that more and more Chinese (Han and others) were into Russian territory.
Bugey libre, there isn't really a Chinese pressure at the Russian border type of problem, especially over the last 2.5 years when it was China, first of all, that closed its borders to outside world that impacted not only Russian and other foreigners, but Chinese citizens as well. But even before the COVID insanity some population exchange between Russia and China, driven mostly by economic opportunities, was observed but considering the size of the population in China it was really minor. As it turned out the present borderline between Russia and China is more of a natural phenomena where going to the north of Amur river is too far north for most Chinese. Han are the people that appreciate warmer climes and easier living conditions than Russia can offer. Looking into the future, if in US State Department they will achieve their dream and Russia will be defeated and subdivided into 14 or more smaller states, Chinese will make their move and declare their rights of influence over the Eastern Siberian region, but before that time they prefer to simply buy Russian resources especially since Russian oligarchs and lesser businessmen are eager to sell them to China at a great discount!
Thank you very much sir, this is the kind of relevant information truth seeker need.
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It's frankly a spiritual issue in most countries. Especially among the wahmen. Do they want to work 9-5 in some cubicle farm so they can buy a nice Gucci handbag? Or do they actually love children and want to have a large family?
Oh well, it will work itself out eventually. Those who want to reproduce will and those who are ardent materialists won't.
That may be so but in a properly managed economy, it is easy to supply plenty of incentives that will encourage larger families.
They have so much land. I don't know why they build those big ugly condominium complexes. Families need to be on the ground.
The bigger the spread the higher the cost. Urban human piles (like ant piles) are much cheaper to build but they still command a pretty hefty market price. This is on one hand - super profits for the construction companies. But on the other hand we have people who were trained by the Soviet system to live in such conditions - massive concrete structures apartment blocks. For most urbanized Russians apartment living is a perfectly normal thing, so people really don't mind buying properties in this big and ugly structures. The only good thing about this approach is that it reduces urban sprawl to a much more limited area than here in US or Canada.
Sorry, Today I discovered that website:
https://gordonhahn.com/
Do you think it is a good source of information. I don't expect that you agree on all things, just that the guy is sincere, we all have biases.
At a glance that site seems to be a pro-Russian resource. Nothing wrong with that, but I personally like resources like this blog by Riley Waggaman since it takes a more critical stance toward Russia.
Thank you. Riley's great but covers only some aspect of Russia, still it is the only place where I comment since these angles cannot be found anywhere else.
I also enjoy coming often to that blog because Riley is a journalist and he does his job, even if he can't afford to make real life inquiry. That must be frustrating for a guy of his caliber but still, he's on the level of James Corbett or Witney Webb when searching on the web. He goes beyond his frustration with his real writings like his "touristic report" on Georgia. His got a great style and his brightness is reflected in his sense of humour. He has moral quality, among which humility and modesty, which isn't easy when you are very talented and gifted.
Last, he is not a conspiracy theory.
Like French Éric Verhaeghe says about "complotiste or conspirationiste" (the French recent neologism for conspiracy theorist, because the concept didn't exist before a couple of years after 9/11 in France), "conspiracy theorist are those of see plots but think the ploters are all powerful, whereas they are not".
The Maçonic French République was born out of a conspiracy, so we know something about it.
Last and not least I come here because their are intellectually challenging commentators like you sir and some knowledgeable people with whom I learn.
On the same vein, I love Coffee and covid which is as funny and intelligent as Edward Slavsquat.
Take care
Thanks, Bugey. Appreciate the kind words. And I enjoy reading your always enlightening and thoughtful comments!
I'm with you on this (and many other things), Bugey libre! I think Riley's blog would be more popular would he be more of the complete spectrum Russia expert vs. focusing on just one limited subject. But we don't know who his sponsors are, if there are such people at all, and if there are, what are their real goals. I'm writing this with complete respect to Riley's work in the field of COVID, injections and digital enslavement field. Be it his calling or simply the circumstances, his excellent work deserves respect regardless. I'm afraid though that given Riley's exposure because of his blog and video interviews, he has gained some notoriety and some powerful people wouldn't want to see him back in the country, so his exile in "Cringy Casablanca" may last longer than he originally accounted for. Well, despite the everpresent hills Tbilisi is not the worst place to be in exile and today's technology allows him to be as informed about events in Russia as if he was there. I hope, however, he resolves his visa issues soon and gets back to his Moscow apartment!
First: Soviet statistics in many instances were pure fantasy and that is a proven fact.
Second: By the time the megalomaniac in Berlin declared war on Russia, between 10 and 20 million persons had already been killed. The situation was so dire that Stalin didn't publish demographic statistics during the whole 1940s because the population growth didn't match the expectations laid out in his plan....and didn't even publish the statistics from the last Soviet census from the 1930s...
Third: The Soviet Union underwent such a demographic destruction that its dreams of a global superpower were thwarted for decades and its effects could be felt well in the 70s and 80s.
Fourth: The Soviet Union included many other peoples that were not Russian at all (Kazaks, Tartars, etc.,) Many of those peoples due to their distance from the great Urban centers were able to remain relatively unscathed from the massacres, purges and were not the primary cannon fodder used by STalin during the first years of the war, a war in which approx. 25 million people died, unlike ethnic Russians who were the main victims of the regime.
Regarding the demographic crisis, I wouldn't rule out the injections impact, but the truth is that Russian spirit is almost dead, most of the young people are atheist or agnostics, therefore less prone to harbor hope and faith for the future or a purpose for their lives, ergo less children are conceived and born, less people are willing to marry, etc. etc.
Good luck with trying to rehabilitate Old communist and murderous totalitarian regimes...
"Yet, if you read any Western sources they call Soviet regime genocidal."
I am half-way through Gulag Archipelago, and he, Solzhenitsyn, says that between 1919 and 1959, approximately 62 million disappeared into the camps never to be heard from again. Is this not accurate?
Funny enough Solzhenitsyn's last name translates from Russian as "one who tells lies" - purely by coincidence, I'm sure. Imagine the situation - early 1945, Soviet Army is winning the war, but it is far from over. Germans mount fierce resistance as Soviet troops enter Central Europe and Germany itself. Chances to perish in the conflict are even higher than before as Soviet command hurries the offensive trying to capture more territory before allies (US, UK, Canada) do, to secure a better negotiations position with them after Germany capitulates. And here a young artillery officer at the Western front decides to write letters to his friends mocking Stalin and the Soviet high military commanders, proposing to organize clandestine cells to fight the regime, knowing perfectly well that letters from the front are perlustrated by security services and eventually he'll get caught, which indeed happened, and he got sentenced to 8 years in prison (literally labor camps) and got released for exemplary behavior ahead of finishing his sentence in 1952, one year before Stalin's death. The chances to die at the front back then were about one in two, and the chances to make it through camp were better nine in ten. Many in Russia suggest that the choice Solzhenitsyn made back then was a "self mutilation" of sorts, to get a jail term with a high probability of survival vs. being killed at war. Numbers of deaths in the labor camps that Solzhenitsyn presented in his books are not just exaggeration, but an extreme exaggeration and bare no relationship to reality whatsoever. For these reasons Solzhenitsyn is deeply disrespected in Russia today by the people, as opposed to liberal authorities, including Putin, that still think Solzhenitsyn was some kind of messiah. This is a long and complicated topic, I don't want to spend too much time on it here.
Excess mortality up, birthrates down - a global phenomenon. Hmmm. What is different?
your tone in this piece is so different, much darker than usual. understandably. thinking that more injections are going to reverse population decline is like prescribing suicide to decrease the murder rate.
RT is a viper in the grass and is long past its use by date.
The iron irrefutable proof that Sputnik works just like the rest of the killer shots. On a separate note, I wonder if Chubais who is now suffering from Guillain-Barre, was jabbed with the domestic product, or if he got one of the Western ones?
Both. First Sputnik and then boosted with Pfizer (this is a rumor) when the sinister coward moved to his holiday house in Italy.
Notice that Chubais was NOT sanctioned by the west because in my opinion he has NO influence over the Kremlin decision makers. He was only given token figurehead jobs by the oligarchy power structure as a reward for their ill gotten riches. Chubais is a VERY hated man in Russia because he helped bring in 100s of CIA agents that created an oligarchy power structure in Russia that exists to this day. Even the TASS Russian news agency is controlled by oligarchs.
I love it when the best people take the clot shot. 😂
Sounds about right to me.
I suspect all countries are experiencing a dramatic drop in population. It's just a matter of who is honest enough to admit it. The causes (I believe) include -
Decades of vaccine poisoning causing childhood illnesses like autism, auto immune disorders and female infertility (this is deliberate, some vaccines secretly include chemicals to render women infertile),
The unravelling of the family unit leading to broken homes, child abuse and traumatised adults who can't raise a family of their own,
Oestrogen leaching into the waterways from the urine of women on the pill and plastics polluting the food chain, causing a drop in mens testosterone levels and low sperm counts,
Corporate farming producing foods that are saturated in weedkillers and have low nutritional value.
Basically modern people are being poisoned.
I'm coming to believe that the only countries that will survive World War III are those that can reverse this trend.
And to do this countries will have to -
Stand up to global criminal corporates like big pharma and the sick ideology of anti family, anti tradition and anti Christian values.
It's simple. Continue poisoning your population and die out, or throw the globalists out of your country and survive.
But ultimately it is the Davos gang of Bankster Psychopaths who are promoting this population reduction agenda, and it is malicious, devious and deliberate. And you ain't seen nothing yet. Just listen to these assholes, from their own statements:
From THE GLOBAL REVOLUTION by The Club of Rome 1991 "Because of the sudden absence of traditional enemies, "new enemies must be identified."[2] "In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill....All these dangers are caused by human intervention, and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy then, is humanity itself."[3]
"We shall have world government, whether or not we like it. The question is only whether world government will be achieved by consent or by conquest"
Paul Warburg, the International Banker testifying to the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations in 1950
"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis."
David Rockefeller, Club of Rome executive manager
Depopulation: "I Hope It Can Occur In a Civil Manner"
"The World can support something like a billion people, maybe two billion"
" i know in one way or another it's going to come back down so i don't hope to avoid that, I hope that it can occur in a civil way "
(i.e. Plandemic and deadly forced vaccines):
Club of Rome former director Dennis Meadows
https://rumble.com/v14uz0z-depopulation-i-hope-it-can-occur-in-a-civil-manner-club-of-romes-dennis-mea.html
“We are grateful to the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine and other great publications whose directors have attended our meetings and respected the promises of discretion for almost forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity during those years. But, the world is now more sophisticated and prepared to march towards a world-government. The supranational sovereignty of an intellectual elite and world bankers is surely preferable to the National auto determination practiced in past centuries.”
David Rockefeller in an address to a Trilateral Commission meeting in June of 1991
“This present window of opportunity, during which a truly peaceful and interdependent world order might be built, will not be open for too long – We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order.”
David Rockefeller, Club of Rome, Sept. 23, 1994
“For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as ‘internationalists’ and of conspiring with others around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure – one world, if you will.
If that’s the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it.”
from David Rockefeller’s autobiography ‘Memoirs’
" Complex technology of any sort is an assault on human dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy, because of what we might do with it. "
Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute
" The prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet. "
Jeremy Rifkin, Greenhouse Crisis Foundation
" Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun. "
Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University
" A massive campaign must be launched to restore a high-quality environment in North America and to de-develop the United States. De-development means bringing our economic system (especially patterns of consumption) into line with the realities of ecology and the global resource situation "
John Holdren Obama Science Czar & Rockefeller puppet
"In Nature organic growth proceeds according to a Master Plan, a Blueprint. Such a master plan is missing from the process of growth and development of the world system. Now is the time to draw up a master plan for sustainable growth and world development based on global allocation of all resources and a new global economic system. Ten or twenty years from today it will probably be too late."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"The concept of national sovereignty has been immutable, indeed a sacred principle of international relations. It is a principle which will yield only slowly and reluctantly to the new imperatives of global environmental cooperation."
UN Commission on Global Governance report
"Democracy is not a panacea. It cannot organize everything and it is unaware of its own limits. These facts must be faced squarely. Sacrilegious though this may sound, democracy is no longer well suited for the tasks ahead. The complexity and the technical nature of many of today's problems do not always allow elected representatives to make competent decisions at the right time."
Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
"In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways."
Dr. Robert Muller, UN Assistant Secretary General
"Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance as a means of solving otherwise unmanageable crises."
Lester Brown, WorldWatch Institute
"A keen and anxious awareness is evolving to suggest that fundamental changes will have to take place in the world order and its power structures, in the distribution of wealth and income."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class involving high meat intake, use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning, and suburban housing are not sustainable."
Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit
"All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution
"The Earth has cancer and the cancer is Man."
Club of Rome, Mankind at the Turning Point
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells, the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions."
Prof. Paul Ehrlich, The Population Bomb
"A reasonable estimate for an industrialized world society at the present North American material standard of living would be 1 billion. At the more frugal European standard of living, 2 to 3 billion would be possible."
United Nations, Global Biodiversity Assessment
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Ted Turner, founder of CNN and major UN donor
"The resultant ideal sustainable population is hence more than 500 million but less than one billion."
Club of Rome, Goals for Mankind
I didn't find an article on your blog. How come?
Take care
I just follow people on Substack, and haven't punished anything yet on the platform.
My personal blog Wikihospitals had a lot of blogs pre covid, many of them very critical of hospital errors and big pharma. I removed them because of fear of having my entire site taken down (Australia is now corporate/communist, like Canada). And also they were really irrelevant to the current situation.
Thank you for you answer madame. I wish you the best health.
Ed, are there stats from Belarus to compare to?
No mandatory vax there. Would be interesting to see the difference.
great question. I'll investigate. To be honest, I think the vax is not even a top 5 factor in Russia -- but obviously there's no way to know. Time will tell, I suppose.
Who wants to have children in a world run by perverts and psychopaths ?
Because fuck them, this is our world, and it’s unbearably beautiful, and more than abundant enough for all of us to live long, happy, healthy lives. Don’t surrender to cynicism and apathy; fight, and fuck, and start a family, if only because that’s exactly what “they” don’t want you to do!
I have 4 kids and I moved to Byelorussia, and I would start a family here but not in the West !
That's nonsense. Due to industrialization we have raised CO2 levels to a sufficient level to prevent the next ice age which would otherwise be beginning soon. During the last ice age the vast northern regions of the planet was buried under over a mile of ice and CO2 levels dropped to 180ppm, the lowest in the history of the Earth, at 150ppm plants die.
The only thing that will guaranteed severely damage our Earth's ecosystem is nutty eco-primitivist dogma that will cause complete devastation of the environment when billions of starving people with nothing to lose will burn, kill and destroy everything to survive. You are talking insanity.
What makes you feel so confident the next ice age will be prevented, it might have already started: https://electroverse.net/
This website seems to be a pain in the ass for some powerful interests.
The ice age thing is not only due to terrestrial factors, earth is not a close circuit.
Respect
No way, 400ppm CO2 on the way to 500ppm, the heat forcing of that much CO2 would easily prevent any glacier expansion, which is exactly what we are seeing. Glaciers are shrinking all over the world and Arctic sea ice is at historically very low levels, likely it will no longer be permanent in a decade or two. Greenland ice sheet is shrinking and coastal regions of the Antarctic ice cap are breaking up. No way another Ice age is possible apart from some extreme event like an large asteroid collision or supervolcano. The normal state of the Earth is no ice ages except for 90% of the past 2Myrs, likely do largely to the formation of the Himalayas. It's a wonderful thing.
Sorry man but the information and links given on that site contradicts yours and many relevant scientists follow it and regret the fact that it is always under attack. Maybe you should check it since it is always interesting to have contradicting info, especially in the present totalitarian moment.
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No per capita energy is increasing in the world at a pretty study pace, except China (the most populous nation) is rising rapidly. It has been fairly stable in Western nations but there has been efficiency improvements and people don't travel as much, they like TVs, computers and video games. The end of industrialization is not nigh, that's nonsense. There is no stopping industrialization, you could knock it down deliberately to some degree, like the Malthusian, Psychopath, Parasite, Welfare-Bum, Bankster creeps are doing, but it will inevitably rebound. The nations that don't industrialize and improve upon that will falter, fail and be absorbed by modern nations. The key to industrialization is to replace fossil/biomass with nuclear energy. And improve the efficiency of the utilization of all resources. Pretty straightforward actually. Mother nature has been following that path for several hundred million years (the efficiency part). It works.
sigh, i will pop over and help repopulate if i must!
Geographical issues - are the Muslim republics not inflating the average statistics? Isn't the situation in Slavic Russia even worse?
Putin clearly has no serious plan to fix this. If he was willing to be less neoliberal, would be easy to incentivize childbearing in the context of his neo-Orthodox schtick. Is he really that beholden to neolib', or is there some geographical factor here too. Like maybe the decline is located in the ex-Soviet rustbelt that's got no future, and Putin only cares about the metropole. Rustbelt is dying a natural death from the elite pov.
Anyway whatever. The country is basically becoming North Korea with Mandatory Disillusionment instead of Juche. The vax is just a part of that.
Yes, it bothers me how Putin did EXACTLY what the Demons of Davos wanted by his EXTRAORDINARILY advantageous to their goals invasion of Ukraine. They are just f'in lovin it.
how is 44 per thousand one and half times less than 63 per thousand?
Look like about 30% less to me.
translation issue. thanks I'll fix.
Why ask a Canadian, for solutions for Russia...? Were all of the Banderite Ukrainian Professors of Russian studies, busy at the front?
A nearly 40% increase in mortality? Good thing those shots are so "safe and effective", think about how much worse it could have been, without them.
AND THE PREDATOR GLOBALIST PSYCHOPATHS WANT MORE BIO WEAPON POISON JABS TO CONTINUE THEIR DEPOPULATION GENOCIDE AGENDA OF TOTAL SLAVERY!
In a freedom tirade video
There's a clip of putin saying "history is not a teacher, it does not teach, it punishes for badly learned lessons"
while Russia and his party is still pushing clot shots and con-vid...
Also, if Russia wanted peace talks, they just need to shut off the gas to Europe, but they play dumb like that's not an ace card.
I guess they're gonna get punished... Lol
You can buy land in Siberia cheaply (sometimes free) and it will get you citizenship in 3 years? The price is far lower than in the West although of course it has still doubled in price for those of us in the West in the last 12 months. i.e. here's one story on it;
https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/russia-offers-free-land-russians-foreigners.html/
You can have summers on the Arctic (up to 40º C!!) and winters at some Siberian ski resort. Cheaper than Colorado.
Skiing at -40° sounds great.
Pretty sure I've done that at Lake Louise.
This might mean they'd even welcome me .....
I don't take the significance of the figures too well. Not numerate enough. What is their import? Simply birth rate too low? Or deaths too high? Or people migrating away? Or what?
And overall are they simply in the same state as most of the western world?