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NOT GREAT AT ALL!
Putin Is A New “Vlad The Impaler” For How He Has Impaled Russia
Putin is doing historic damage to Russia.
Bloomberg has reported that Russia is looking into easing restrictions against child labor as the Russian economy is tanking due to sanctions, the mass mobilization of draftees for the war in Ukraine, and the mass exodus of young men into neighboring countries.
Russia already has a huge demographic problem in that its birth rate is catastrophically low, Russians are 30 years late on having a large number of 30-year-olds, and Vladimir Putin is currently killing and maiming tens of thousands of its limited supply of young men in an unwindable war in Ukraine. Putin is now sabotaging the future livelihoods of Russian teenagers’ education and future productivity by incentivizing them to leave high school to do some of the jobs left vacant by their fathers, brothers, and uncles.
Meanwhile, Putin’s war has gotten the Russian economy largely kicked out of the international order, meaning that their workers are facing a gradual decline back to the 1980s. Russian dependence on Western technology alongside Western companies pulling out of Russia in protest of the war means that Russian manufacturing industries will collapse thanks to their near universal reliance on Western…
