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2025-05-14 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Russian Army attacks in 11 directions - Ukrainian General Staff

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Posted by badanov 2025-05-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [132 views ] Top

#1 😎

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 01:45|| 2025-05-14 01:45|| Front Page Top

#2 And none, sadly, a available any longer to father children

Eggs are expensive, sperm is cheap.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 01:46|| 2025-05-14 01:46|| Front Page Top

#3 Biologically speaking, yes of course. BUT, given that Russia’s population was already falling significantly, every male not available to contribute to the gene pool significantly hastens the run to extinction. With frozen samples, the DNA is not lost, and a connection to the lost man for those who loved him.

The other piece of that is that the very act of making that donation leads each man to think about having a posterity, and is a nudge toward finding a way to create that without dying first.

Something to continue on this side of the ocean, too.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 02:06|| 2025-05-14 02:06|| Front Page Top

#4 TW. There are many reasons for birth rate decline (except among welfare recipients), but lack of sperm is not one of them. And single mothers, regardless of socioeconomic status, are not a solution.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 03:27|| 2025-05-14 03:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Grom, that’s all true. But Mr. Wife almost died in India once. And even as his parents and I were waiting to find out whether he was going to survive both amoebic dysentery and the hospital in Bhopal — his local colleagues called me long distance every day for several weeks and lied about his condition to keep me from getting on an airplane and flying over there— I was profoundly grateful that in the worst case we would have his baby daughter to remember him by.

It’s not the same as being a military spouse or parent, but I do have some idea what those left behind feel. And however difficult single parenthood most definitely is, Russia really needs her people to find reasons to have children.

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 04:25|| 2025-05-14 04:25|| Front Page Top

#6 Russia really needs her people to find reasons to have children.

Not just Russia

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 04:47|| 2025-05-14 04:47|| Front Page Top

#7 Ukraine is in worse shape, yes. So are Spain and Italy, South Korea, Japan… and Iran is heading in that direction…

Posted by trailing wife 2025-05-14 04:51|| 2025-05-14 04:51|| Front Page Top

#8 ^There is nothing to be done.

Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-05-14 04:59|| 2025-05-14 04:59|| Front Page Top

#9 Some how the species survived with a smaller population than we have now. Guess the gals were all chasing the same top 10% back then too.

Posted by Procopius2k 2025-05-14 09:09|| 2025-05-14 09:09|| Front Page Top

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