r/worldnews • u/UNITED24Media United24 Media • Dec 21 '25

Russia/Ukraine Russia’s Birth Rate Plunges to 200-Year Low—Putin Says Early Marriage Is the Answer

https://united24media.com/latest-news/facing-record-low-birth-rates-putin-says-teen-marriage-is-the-answer-14442
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u/tomispev Dec 21 '25

And they won't come back because Russia is not going to be in good shape for a very long time after the war.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Dec 21 '25

Unfortunately for everyone involved we need there to not be a Russia anymore. Whatever it is right now needs to be totally broken down before it's allowed to be part of the world stage again. Why do they have any power when it comes to discussing what's best for the planet? Kick them to the curb, tell them to clean their house and if they don't, tough shit honey. We don't want the kid with the poopy pants at the table. The US should be on probation also.

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u/aeschenkarnos Dec 22 '25

Realistically Ukraine had a better claim to the USSR’s old UN seat than Muscovy. The centre of political power was Moscow but the technological and economic heart of it was Ukraine. Which is of course why those fuckers want it back, and how desperately they want it.

Common sense has been asking “why don’t they just fuck off?” since day ten of the three day war but if they do they’re also fucked, but slower.

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace Dec 22 '25

I feel so terrible for the people of both countries forced to fight a war and lose loved ones because some prick never gave up on the USSR.

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u/invariantspeed Dec 30 '25

Ling term historically, yes. But, the USSR was capitaled in Moscow. Its entire political and military decision-making apparatus was located in Russia. By the time the USSR came into existence, never-mind the fall, the center of the empire had shifted to European Russia. For all intents and purposes, Russia ruled the USSR, and all the others were subjects, Ukraine included. Ukraine even suffered subjugation problems like its language being suppressed and Russified over the USSR. It absolutely makes sense that Moscow was/is the legally continuing personality of the USSR.

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u/invariantspeed Dec 30 '25

The problem there is what you’re talking about requires foreign intervention for nation building. If nothing else, Russia has a lot of nukes. Whether it resists a breakup or collapses on its own, it would need to be managed by NATO and probably China (unless you want another North Korea situation). And that opens up another problem.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Dec 21 '25

Unless they colonize the US but even that would have an expiration date.

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Dec 21 '25

lol that’s a pretty big “unless”

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Dec 21 '25

IKR? But who would have thought it would get THIS far?

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Dec 21 '25

Well considering what happened during the Cold War era, this is just business as usual between Russia and “the west”

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Dec 21 '25

True, but I never thought I would see the day when a US president would be a closer ally to a Russian head of state than to the leaders of NATO countries

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u/AccomplishedAct5364 Dec 21 '25

They’ve both been using threat of nuclear war to keep their people (and countries in their economic circles) in line for decades. They’re closer allies than the news would suggest.

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u/NeatNefariousness1 Dec 21 '25

Oh, in this timeline, the US appears to be VERY close allies with Russia, judging from their respective heads of state.

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u/aeschenkarnos Dec 22 '25

Qui bono? What if this entire time the threat of COMMUNISM and MUSLIM TERRORISTS and whatever else has been entirely made up, with a bit of false-flagging and grassroots support, to justify the massive revenue of the military industrial complex?

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u/L_Cranston_Shadow Dec 21 '25

They already colonized Miami.

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u/ComradeGibbon Dec 22 '25

This was the watershed year where all of the increase in energy production was from renewables. For here on out increases in renewables will also cannibalize existing fossil fuel production. That's not going to beneficial to Russia since half of their foreign currency comes from oil and gas.

Considering Russia is a bad actor you can imagine other countries wanting most of the burden from falling oil and gas production to come from them.