[mensetmanusman]

Russia equipped real soldiers with throwaway tanks and not surprisingly made throwaway soldiers.

This is having a profound emotional impact on villages already reeling before the war from the lack of young men to start families (due to rampant alcoholism and suicide).

This conflict alone will result in 1 million fewer people in two generations as it stands, and this number will only grow as Putin tries to save face.

[tim333]

Not sure how you get 1 mil fewer people when there are only about 20k dead so far?

[mensetmanusman]

The downstream generational damage of no future children and so on