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“Sadly the American dream is dead, but if I get elected president I will bring it back. Bigger, better and stronger than ever before.” - Donald Trump

Listen to the song: Bigger Better Stronger - Donald Trump Remix!

Donald Trump is running for president in 2024![1] The excitement is raging!

Please see: The United States will be the leading power in the world for the foreseeable future

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American patriots, read these important essays and quotes. They will attempt to make you VERY proud to be an American (And a Westerner!). But resist the temptation because pride is a sin! We don't want to be like those godless, prideful homosexuals with their depraved pride parades. Pride comes before the fall so stay humble and victorious!

See also: Donald Trump achievements and Donald Trump achievements: Foreign policy and Donald Trump achievements: Religious liberty and LGBT and Donald Trump and American atheists

"America is a nation of believers, and together we are strengthened by the power of prayer." - President Donald Trump[2]

Essays about the United States

Essay about the West

Essays about China and Russia

Hey American winners! Some very important quotes!

Made up quote alert: “It is not enough that the USA succeeds. Other major powers must fail. True winning requires reference points.” - Captain America

"Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." - The American coach Vince Lombardi

"But I was successful at everything I ever did and then I run for president, first time - first time, not three times, not six times. I ran for President first time and lo and behold, I win." - Donald Trump

"Sometimes by losing a battle you find a new way to win the war." - Donald Trump

"What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate." - Donald Trump

"Most people think small, because most people are afraid of success, afraid of making decisions, afraid of winning. And that gives people like me a great advantage." - Donald Trump

The "extra special military operation" had NOTHING to do with Vladimir Putin's corruption, authoritarianism, poor leadership and regime security! P.S. National security is different than regime security

"Russia is a nuclear-armed country with a large army and a big stockpile of weapons. But Russia felt threatened by Ukraine and its tremendous horde of Nazis - led by the Ukrainian Jew Volodymyr Zelenskyy!

Russia's "extra special military operation in Ukraine" had NOTHING to do with regime security and as a distraction for my corruption, authoritarianism and failed leadership.

Pay no attention to the graphs and information below!" - Vladimir Putin

P.S. National security is different than regime security.
"The United States and China are undoubtedly the two most powerful countries, but at least one more country must be roughly in their league for multipolarity to exist. This is where claims of multipolarity fall apart. Every country that could plausibly rank third—France, Germany, India, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom—is in no way a rough peer of the United States or China." -The Myth of Multipolarity, American Power’s Staying Power, 2023

However, a number of leading geopolitical analysts are skeptical about China remaining a global power as it faces a number of serious intractable problems (See: Skepticism about China remaining a global power).

I do agree with Donald Trump that America should not get into "endless wars" that do not serve America's vital interests.[3] I also agree with Trump's policy of not using the American military to "solve ancient conflicts in faraway lands".[4]
Chart of the growth of U.S. GNP from January 1947 to January 2023.

A great strength of the United States is its very consistent growth of its GNP over decades and its quick recovery the few times its GNP has gone down.[5]

In addition, research indicates that in the long-term, non-authoritarian countries are more likely to experience greater economic growth. See: Time Under Authoritarian Rule and Economic Growth, CORI Working Paper No. 2007-02

For more information on this topic, please see:

*Should You Be Bullish on America?

Why is America so rich?

*Size of a working age population in a country and its correlation with national GNP in advanced economies. The ability of the United States to attract some of the best and brightest workers in the world

*Slow and steady growth over the long term via capitalism and the rule of law versus short-sighted authoritarian economic growth that is costly to the long term economy
Investopedia says about the importance of labor productivity to an economy, "Labor productivity is largely driven by investment in capital, technological progress, and human capital development. Labor productivity is directly linked to improved standards of living in the form of higher consumption."[6]

According the Yahoo Finance: "According to Yahoo Finance: "Efficiency in production, also coined as productivity, is one of the major driving forces behind economic resilience in a country... The United States has one of the strongest economies in the world. The country hosts some of the largest companies in the world, which contributes to the high GDP per capita in the country."[7]

As can be seen in the map above, the USA has one of the highest labor productivity rates in the world and it is significantly higher than both China and Russia.[8]

For more information, please see: The USA has one of the highest labor productivity rates in the world - significantly higher than both China and Russia
The USA was among the most 10 most diverse economies in 2018 according to the Word Atlas website.[9]

Read the articles: The Importance Of A Diversified Economy and Resilient, stable, sustainable: The benefits of economic diversification
Russian GNP 1991 to August 2023.

Estimates of Russian GNP 1991 to August 2023 measured in US fiat dollars; exchange rates between the dollar and the ruble ended in March 2022 when the ruble became a gold-backed currency.

Recently, the Russian ruble has seen a big decline:

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Russia’s War-Torn Economy Hits Its Speed Limit: Economists see this week’s currency gyrations not as the beginning of a financial crisis but rather as a symptom of the Kremlin’s sclerotic economic prospects], Wall Street Journal, August 2023

*The Russian ruble hit a 16-month low this week and is one of the worst performing currencies in 2023, August, 2023

*Russia Cranks Interest Rates to 12% in Emergency Move Supporting Ruble, Barron's, August 2023

*5 stats show how Russia's economy is declining, Business Insider, 2023

Judo blackbelt Vladumir Putin: The Jewish leader of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky and his Nazi horde was threatening me!

Volodymyr Zelensky and friends dancing.

Please notice the complete absence of Nazi swastikas and Nazi salutes!
Judo blackbelt Vladimir Putin and his friends looking at Volodymyr Zelensky dancing and feeling very threatened - especially since they are all Nazis!

Note: Ukraine does have a Nazi/Neo-Nazi problem, but Vladimir Putin exaggerates the problem for propaganda purposes: Ukraine's Nazi problem is real, even if Putin's 'denazification' claim isn't. For example, Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish.

Seemingly weak, little girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin to the floor

Seemingly weak, little girl Judo practioner tosses Vladimir Putin the floor![10]

Even the sissy boy Barack Obama wasn't thrown to the floor by a little girl.

Ukrainian delegate punches very rude Russian official over a Ukrainian flag at a summit

Essay: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

Vladimir Putin as a KGB officer.

See also: Essay: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

One the most basic traditional values is not stealing. As far as the traditional value of not stealing, Vladimir Putin doesn't practice this aspect of social conservatism.

The conservative thinktank, the Hudson Institute, has a good video on Putin's kleptocracy: Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia? (Karen Dawisha, an American political scientist and writer, is the speaker) .

Alexander J. Motyl's article at The Hill stated regarding Vladimir Putin's presidency and corruption:

“ Russia has been in disarray for 30 years. True, the Boris Yeltsin years in the 1990s were especially difficult, but Putin has decidedly failed to build a cohesive society and functioning economy. A repressed society may be more pliant, but it is not cohesive and stable, as the Soviets learned during perestroika.

A dirigiste economy may enable the authorities to funnel resources toward whichever projects they want, but it is not therefore more functional. Putin did succeed in building a stronger regime and state, but even that success has been deceptive. It’s clear now that strengthening the forces of coercion while permitting the bureaucracy to run roughshod and seize rents is no way to promote state strength, but it is an excellent way to promote corruption and self-enrichment.[11]

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Russia has a long history of corruption. Putin's corruption is not some surprising fact of history. See: Corruption in Russia: A Historical Perspective

Panama Papers, corruption and Putin associates

Vladimir Putin's cozy relationship with organized crime in Russia

Vladimir Putin at a conference.

A review of Mark Galeotti's 2018 book The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia by Yale University Press indicates:

“ The vory, the professional elite of Russian organized crime, have roots that go far back into the days of the tsars...

...as the Russian state began to reassert its authority under Putin, members of organized crime became less important than the oligarchs whom they had helped ascend to wealth and power. Today, Putin controls the oligarchs, and together they control and exploit the criminal world to their mutual advantage.

Galeotti’s work excels at providing an understanding of Russian criminality at its operational level. It focuses on the different types of personnel represented in the crime groups — the bosses, the lookouts, and the aspirants seeking to share in the excitement and the profit of the criminal world. In contrast to the greyness that characterized Soviet life, the world of the blatnye, as conveyed by Galeotti, was vibrant, not reined in by the constraints that dominated the Soviet era. Therefore, it is hardly surprising that the criminal world was so often romanticized in the Russian and Soviet imagination. One need think no farther than the Odessa Tales of the great author Isaak Babel, who, as Galeotti recalls, brought to life the crime-dominated Moldavanka neighborhood in the colorful port city on the Black Sea.

A particular strength of the book is Galeotti’s ability to analyze the dynamics of the diverse criminal gangs that comprise the thieves’ world in different urban centers — such as Moscow, St. Petersburg, and Ekaterinburg. Many operated on a smaller scale in numerous other cities across Russia and Ukraine. Ethnic groups, particularly from the Caucasus, were key actors in the professional criminal world of the Soviet and post-Soviet era. The most prominent of these were the Chechens and the Georgians, both overrepresented in the highest ranks of the criminal world and both meriting their own chapter in The Vory.[12]

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The Journal of Power Institutions in Post-Soviet Societies review of Mark Galeotti's book The Vory: Russia’s Super-Mafia states:

“ Galeotti makes a strong case for the presence of a vory logic in current Russian state practices – look at how the "raiding" of businesses is conducted with state agents using tactics reminiscent of the mob; the state uses criminals to fight its wars in Ukraine and do its dirty business in Spain; Putin uses the language of the street to assert his credentials; taxi drivers listen to shanson, prison music, on the radio; films about honourable criminals and gangs gain cult followings; and young men spatter vory jargon into their speech. The book, especially in the later chapters, provides up to date, thorough and thought-provoking analyses of important events. It is a comprehensive account of an argument that has been touched on before but has never been so well articulated. Svetlana Stephenson’s 2015 Gangs of Russia, for example, ends by noting the infusion of gang logics and language into Russian politics. Anton Oleinik (Organized Crime, Prison and Post-Soviet Society 2003) also argued that post-Soviet society mirrored the "small society" of criminal subculture and the norms originating in Russian prison. Here, though, this argument gets its fullest and most convincing airing yet.

Indeed, Galeotti takes it even further. He suggests not just state practices but even Russian social values have become suffused with the norms of organized crime. "Maybe…it is not that the vory have disappeared so much as that everyone is now a vor, and the vorovskoi mir [thieves’ world] ultimately won (p. 222)".[13]

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The Moscow Times notes concerning Galeotti’ book The Vory: Russia’s Super Mafia:

“ Russian gangsters, Galeotti writes, “hold up a dark mirror to Russian society” in which the boundaries between crime, business and politics are “all too often indistinct.” The book’s central contention is that these gangsters “have not only been shaped by a changing Russia, they have also shaped it.”

Since the end of the 1990s, Russian organised crime has become “regularised, corporately minded and integrated with elements of the state.” If you follow Russian politics, chances are that you have seen the now famous clip of President Putin threatening to “‘whack terrorists, even in the outhouse.” That Putin publicly deployed these terms, Galeotti says, is only possible because of the widescale appropriation of the underworld lexicon by mainstream society. Krysha (roof, i.e., protection), skhodki (meetings), and limonki (little lemons, i.e., one million rubles) are just a few examples of underworld vocabulary – and, indeed, practices – that have become part of everyday political parlance in Russia.

Another central premise of the book is that where there is demand, organised crime supplies. In most cases the demand is for illegal and often violent services, but Galeotti also tells the lighter tale of “cheese runners” who smuggle Western cheese – forbidden by Russian counter-sanctions – into the country through Belarus. If 20 years ago organized crime was “a facilitator within Russia’s still unruly business environment,” today it plays a similar role on a transnational scale. [14]

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Videos on Vladimir Putin's corrupt kleptocracy

  • Putin's Kleptocracy: Who Owns Russia?, Tales of corruption in Russia are nothing new. But in her new book, “Putin’s Kleptocracy,” Karen Dawisha connects the dots between government and private sector corruption and Vladimir Putin’s rapid rise to power, leading to the question, who owns Russia?

The USA will dance on the graves of the declining, corrupt and authoritarian regimes of China and Russia (Unless of course, they repent!)

Videos of Donald Trump dancing:

Donald Trump saying China:

The future decline of China and Russia

China!

See also: The rising rule of communist idiocracy in China and Chinese Communist Party and corruption and Atheistic China and property theft

"Hey Xi, how did you like my tariffs buddy? China!" - Donald Trump
China banned Winnie-the-Pooh because of the similarities between Winnie-the-Pooh and Xi Jinping.

Xi Jinping is obese. See also: Atheism and obesity

See also: Chinese Communist Party and corruption and Atheistic China and property theft

Russia is a declining power

Donald Trump sent Javelin missiles to Ukraine.

"Hey Vlad, how do you like those Javelin missiles I sent to Ukraine? Good old-fashioned Yankee ingenuity!" - Donald Trump

Another relevant point: The USA has had alliances with unsavory people. In WWII, FDR and the tyrant Joseph Stalin worked together to defeat the Nazis. Trump's position that Putin may be a killer and the USA has not been so innocent in the past was a true statement (Trump on Putin: "we've got a lot of killers. You think our country's so innocent?").

Trump isn't a Putin cheerleader, but he did try to have a better relationship with Russia which is a nuclear power. If the USA chooses to stop funding the corrupt country of Ukraine which will probably not achieve its objectives in this war, I have no problem with that.

See also: Is Ukraine a democracy or a corrupt state with authoritarian leanings?

Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian. The USA will dance on his grave.

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Vladimir Putin

See also: Vladimir Putin is a corrupt kleptocrat and an authoritarian

The ruble is turning to rubble

Russian 100 ruble currency note

Recently, the Russian ruble has seen a big decline:

*Russia’s War-Torn Economy Hits Its Speed Limit: Economists see this week’s currency gyrations not as the beginning of a financial crisis but rather as a symptom of the Kremlin’s sclerotic economic prospects, Wall Street Journal, August 2023

*The Russian ruble hit a 16-month low this week and is one of the worst performing currencies in 2023, August, 2023

*Russia Cranks Interest Rates to 12% in Emergency Move Supporting Ruble, Barron's, August 2023

*5 stats show how Russia's economy is declining, Business Insider, 2023

Russia's economy is not highly diversified. It is too dependent on oil and gas

Oil and gas are a significant part of the Russian economy. Russia is now selling oil and gas at a lower profit margin to China/India due to sanctions and Europe moving away from Russia oil/gas:

Russia's economy is not highly diversified. It is too dependent on oil and gas. See: Russia's economy and gas and oil profits will be BADLY damaged when China's economy declines

Oil and gas are a significant part of the Russian economy. Russia is now selling oil and gas at a lower profit margin to China/India due to sanctions and Europe moving away from Russia oil/gas. China's economy is having significant problems compared to its past. If China's economy gets worse (And there is some evidence that China's future economy will may worse this decade and beyond), that is going to hurt the Russian economy. See: Essay:Skepticism about China remaining a global power). See also: Russia's economy and gas and oil profits will be BADLY damaged when China's economy declines

"Even the act of diverting supplies to Asia entails a significant reduction in Russian companies’ profit margins. It costs a lot more to transport oil to Asian markets than to Europe, and there is not much spare transport capacity, which pushes up the cost of freight, reducing the profit made by Russian companies, whatever the amount at which the price is capped.

The price cap also enables Asian buyers to obtain big discounts on Russian oil. China and India may not officially be enforcing the cap, but it’s hard to imagine that companies from those countries will not use it to barter the price down. Indeed, this is already happening: some shipments to China due to be loaded onto tankers in January were sold at $5–6 cheaper per barrel than usual."[15]

Oil and gas are a significant part of the Russian economy.

Russia is now selling oil and gas at a lower profit margin to China/India due to sanctions and Europe moving away from Russia oil/gas.[16]
Russian monthly oil revenues from January 2022 to July 2023 (International Energy Agency estimates)[17]

In 2023, Russian oil revenues are considerably down from 2022.[18]

Trump has Putin ‘over a barrel’ with aggressive energy policy, defense of the West, CNBC, 2017

Donald Trump had Vladimir Putin ‘over a barrel’ with his aggressive energy policy.[19]

It is just a matter of time before another Republican president will be elected in the USA.

Unfortunately for Russia, it does not have a well-diversified economy.

Countries with diversified economies are more resilient and stable:

Booz & Company was a global strategy consulting team established in the United States in 1914. The firm was acquired by PwC on April 4, 2014.

Below is the executive summary of their report entitled Resilient, stable, sustainable: The benefits of economic diversification

“ The effects of the recent global economic crisis were allpervasive, and demonstrated that no economy is safe from destabilizing external events. Resource-dependent countries, with their narrow base of economic activity, are particularly vulnerable, but all countries may have vulnerabilities stemming from a lack of diversification in one or more economic dimensions, and they must be more vigilant in managing risks to their economies. Not only must a country’s gross domestic product (GDP) be balanced among sectors, but key elements of its economy must be varied, flexible, and readily applicable to a variety of economic opportunities, and areas of overconcentration must continually be identified and mitigated. Policymakers should work to achieve greater economic diversification, in order to reduce the impact of external events and foster more robust, resilient growth over the long term.

For resource-rich, developing economies, the immediate imperative is to diversify export-oriented sectors, but for the benefit of long-term sustainability, they must also look at the larger picture. A strong institutional and regulatory framework and workforce development initiatives are indispensable to the diversification effort; and proper management of human capital is key, especially in those countries experiencing a “demographic dividend.” Implementing such comprehensive diversification and risk management strategies won’t be easy, but the result—a diverse, stable, and growing economy—is worth the effort.[20]

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Related articles:

Every year, 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[21]

Russia's fertility rate

Russian demography has long been an existential issue to Vladimir Putin. In 2021, he declared “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority".[22]

Russia's fertility rate of 1.58 births per woman is one of the lowest fertility rates in the world.[23] By comparison, the United States fertility rate over the same time span prior to the Biden regime's open borders policy was 1.64 births per woman.[24] Both nations' fertility rates are below the replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman.

According to a 2022 report of IntelliNews:

“ The decline in the size of Russia’s population is accelerating, driven by a combination of the arrival of the demographic dip caused by the 1990s and one of the lowest fertility rates in the world.

Russia saw a rapid expansion in population during the Soviet era as the country was industrialised and the population moved into the cities. The population rose from circa 100mn in 1945 following WWII to 148.5mn in 1992, after which the economic chaos of that decade both depressed fertility and increased the death rates, especially amongst men. Life expectancy in particular crashed after the economy collapsed in 2009.

Now things are even worse. Compared to the peaks of the boom years in the early noughties, fertility rates in Russia have fallen by almost a third and are now even lower than in the mid-1990s, when an average of 9.3 children were born per 100,000 people.

While the death rate is growing at the same time, the natural population decline continues to accelerate: 264,300 people per quarter, or 7.3 people per 100,000 of the population – new all-time lows for the entire modern history of the country.[23]

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Russia's state statistics service reports that as of 2020 73 percent of Russian marriages ended in divorce, with 48 percent divorcing before having children.

Demographic projections of Russia's future population

Map of Russia.

Approximately 7% of Russia's land is arable and suitable for agricultural production.

Demographers estimate Russia will fall from being the 9th most populous country in the world to being the 17th by 2050.[23] And estimates indicate that Russia's population will drop from 2014's 142 million to 128 million by 2050.[23]

The Jamestown Foundation's 2022 article Russia’s Demographic Collapse Is Accelerating notes:

“ Aleksey Raksha, an independent Russian demographer and perhaps the closest Russian counterpart to the late US expert Murray Feshbach, provides the most comprehensive discussion of these developments. He relies exclusively on the first results of the latest census, which were released earlier this summer (Vedomosti.ru, April 8), and a broader selection of demographic data that Rosstat, the Russian government’s statistical arm, has now released (Rosstat.gov.ru, August 2022), making it far harder for his words to be dismissed. The situation he outlines is devastating (Svoboda.org, August 9).

During the first five months of 2022, Russia’s population fell by 430,000, which far exceeded the figure for the same period in 2021 and one that points to another decline of more than one million people for 2022 as a whole. The 2021 figure reflects both the relationship of births and deaths among the permanent population and the size of migration flows. Last year, in-migration partially compensated for the greater number of deaths as compared to births, but this year, it has not. Instead, increased out-migration has contributed to the total population decline. The opening of the country to in-migration after the pandemic may lead to a slight improvement in the second half of 2022, but that will not be enough to compensate for the indigenous decline continuing into 2023 and throughout the coming decade (Osnmedia.ru, July 26).[25]

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The journalist Isabelle Khurshudyan's 2020 article In Siberian coal country, signs of Russia’s shrinking population are everywhere. It ‘haunts’ Putin. notes:

“ A United Nations demographic report last year calculated that the “pessimistic” outlook for Russia is that the population will fall to 124.6 million by 2050 and to 83.7 million by 2100.

Raksha, the demographer, expects a bigger drop next year in another potential consequence of the pandemic. One indicator: Registered marriages this year through July were down 23 percent compared with the same period last year, according to Rosstat.

The pandemic made things “unpredictable, and in such situations, people delay birth,” said Raksha, who worked for Rosstat until this summer. Putin’s solution: promising tax breaks for larger families and stipends for those who have kids.[26]

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Bloomberg News reported on October 18, 2022:

“ Plans by Putin’s government had set the goal of starting to reverse the decline in the population in 2022 before growth should resume in 2030. Yet weeks before the mobilization was announced in September, an internal report drafted for a closed-door meeting showed officials were already concluding those targets were unrealistic.

Citing the consequences of the coronavirus and migration outflows, the report instead proposed a revision that envisaged a decrease of 416,700 people in 2030.

Should military operations continue in the coming months, as expected, Russia may see less than 1.2 million births next year, the lowest in modern history, according to Igor Efremov, a researcher and specialist in demographics at the Gaidar Institute in Moscow.[27]

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Russia’s population nightmare is going to get even worse, 2023

The war in Ukraine has aggravated a crisis that long predates the conflict. See: Demographics of Russia and Aging of Russia

Russia's demographic crisis and its state of public health

Every year, 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia.[28]

Adam Gwiazda's article Demographic crisis in Russia states:

“ The state of public health is one of the most extreme aspects of the demographic crisis in Russia. As a result of the AIDS epidemic, alcoholism and the dreadful state of health care, in the years 2005-2015 the mortality rate in Russia was three times higher among men and twice as high among women as in other countries with a similar level of social and economic development. More than half of the deaths of Russians aged 15-54 were caused by alcohol abuse after the collapse of the USSR. It should be noted that even the increase in the income of the Russian population by about 80 per cent in the years 1999-2008 did not result in a decrease in the mortality rate. High Russian mortality is the result not only of “normally” treatable diseases, such as tuberculosis, but also of lifestyle: drinking vodka, smoking cigarettes and AIDS. Every year, 500,000 people die due to alcohol in Russia. This applies to both women and men. The drug problem is also huge, as the prices of drugs are lower than in Western countries.

Russia is also unable to cope with the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and cancer, which are the main cause of death. The problem is not only the lack of sufficient funds for health care (until mid-2005, about 4.2 per cent of GDP was allocated for this purpose, while in rich European countries it was on average 8-10 per cent of GDP), but also the country’s unfavorable social and economic situation, relatively low position of health and a long life on the Russian list of priorities, poverty, lack of responsibility for one’s own health, and bad habits.[29]

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Russia's low fertility rate, aging population, projected working population and its potential impact on its economy

Russian woman in a dress.

Russia's population is expected to age significantly over the next few decades.[30]

The World Bank's article Searching for a New Silver Age in Russia: The Drivers and Impacts of Population Aging states:

“ Over the next few decades, Russia’s population is expected to age significantly. Some of this aging will be due to the increasing life expectancy, which is a significant achievement. However, this trend, together with low fertility and the retirement of large numbers of people born in the 1950s are expected to reduce the working-age population by as much as 14 percent over the next 35 years.

A decline in Russia’s working-age population will certainly pose serious social and economic challenges – but it can also offer important opportunities.

Pessimistic forecasts about the impacts of aging often assume that current behavior and institutions will continue unchanged in a future, older society. For example, since the early 1990s, increases in the working-age population have accounted for about one third of the growth in per capita GDP. Over the next few decades, without changes in individual behavior and government policies, a rise in the dependency ratio could reduce growth by 2 percentage points per year.

One important channel is savings, which could plunge if lifecycle-based savings rates remain unchanged as Russia’s population ages. Aging could also substantially increase spending on health care and pensions, leading to protracted deficits that boost today’s debt-to-GDP ratio of 20% of GDP to over 100% by 2050.

A more optimistic view is that individuals and firms will adapt to aging, and that policies can promote and speed up this adaptation process.[31]

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An excerpt from the abstract for the 2016 journal article Aging in Russia published in the journal The Gerontologist states:

“ Russia has always been at an intersection of Western and Eastern cultures, with its dozens of ethnic groups and different religions. The federal structure of the country also encompasses a variety of differences in socioeconomic status across its regions... Social policy and legislation address the needs of older adults by providing social services, support, and protection. The retirement system in Russia enables adults to retire at relatively young ages—55 and 60 years for women and men, respectively—but also to maintain the option of continuing their professional career or re-establishing a career after a “vocation” period. Though in recent years the government has faced a range of political issues, affecting the country’s economy in general, budget funds for support of aging people have been maintained.[32] ”

Vladimir Putin's attempts to raise Russia's fertility rate is not expected to reverse Russia's population decline

The Yeltsin years had devastating consequences for Russia's population.

Fortune magazine reported in 2022: "For Putin, who just turned 70, Russian demography has long been an existential issue, and just last year he declared that “saving the people of Russia is our top national priority.” He’s presided over efforts to buy time with costly policies that contributed to a steep gain in longevity and ranged from lump payments for new mothers to mortgage relief for families".[33]

Bne IntelliNews indicated in 2022:

“ Between 1993 and 2008, Russia’s population saw a considerable decline in its population from 148.37mn to 143.25. However, after Russian President Vladimir Putin took over in 2000 he put demographics at the top of the agenda and launched a comprehensive reform to boost the population, as featured by bne IntelliNews in “Putin’s babies”. The fruits of these reforms began to appear in around 2008 when the population began growing again...

The population increased again to 145.9mn recently; however, the population was expected to peak at the end of 2020 and is projected to start declining again...

These problems were already very visible at the end of the 1990s, when demographers became increasingly alarmed at where Russia was heading.[23]

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On December 3, 2022, Fortune magazine stated:

“ Since the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991, Russia has confronted a continued population slump due to low birth rates coupled with high mortality rates. Throughout his rule, Russian President Vladimir Putin has obsessed over Russia’s shrinking population. Last year, Putin encouraged Russians to build a “strong family [with] two, three, or four children. [This] should be the image of a future Russia.” This August, he revived the Soviet-era “Mother Heroine” award, which pays $16,000 to women who have 10 or more children.[34] ”

The Institute for Family Studies states concerning national policies to raise birth rates: "Pro-natal incentives do work: more money does yield more babies. Anybody saying otherwise is mischaracterizing the research. But it takes a lot of money. Truth be told, trying to boost birth rates to replacement rate purely through cash incentives is prohibitively costly."[35]

The Science for Truth Information Center published a list of recommendations to legislators and politicians in April 2021:

“ 1. To reconsider the level of cooperation with the UN and WHO and their funding in connection with activities that are contrary to the Constitution, Russian legislation and strategic goals for the sustainable growth of the population of the Russian Federation with an increase in life expectancy to 78 years. We are talking about the UN population policy in general and the promotion of the normality of homosexuality to children in the WHO sex education standards in particular.

2. To toughen the punishment for promoting homosexuality, transsexualism, abortion, childlessness and other types of depopulation behavior in the context of the current demographic crisis. Extend the ban on propaganda of depopulation ideologies to all age categories. [36]

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War in Ukraine negatively affecting Russia's fertility rate

India Today[37] reported on February 27, 2023:

“ With over 65,000 Russian fighters having been killed in the war in Ukraine and 8 lakh people, mostly fighting-age men, fleeing the country, Russia is said to be staring at a population crisis. Russia might see fewer than 1.2 million births this year if the war in Ukraine continues, according to experts.

By India Today World Desk: Experts warned that Russia might witness a 10 per cent decline in births this calendar year as thousands of Russian soldiers continue to die in the war being waged in Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched what he termed a "special military operation" in Ukraine on February 24 last year. Since then, nearly 65,000 Russian fighters have died in Ukraine and over 100,300 have sustained grievous injuries.

As per reports, experts have estimated that Russia may see fewer than 1.2 million births this year if the war rages on in the near future.

Approximately, 800,000 people, mainly men of fighting age, have fled Russia since the war began in a bid to avoid active participation in the military offensive, according to a media report...

With a ceasefire looking elusive in the foreseeable future, Russia's situation may worsen as it has been recording a growing elderly population.[38]

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In an interview with Rossiya-1 TV aired on February 26, 2023, Russian president Vladimir Putin said,

“ If we opt for [Russia’s disintegration], I think that the destinies of many peoples of Russia, and first of all the Russian people, of course, may change drastically. I even doubt that such an ethnic group as the Russian people will survive as it is today, with some Muscovites, Uralian and others remaining instead.

They [ the West ] have one goal of liquidating the former Soviet Union and its main part, the Russian Federation. And later, [after liquidating Russia] they will probably admit us to the so-called family of civilized peoples, but only by parts, each part separately. What for? For ordering those parts around and putting under their control.[39]

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  2. ↑ President Donald J. Trump Stands Up For Religious Freedom In The United States, WhiteHouse.gov, May 3, 2018
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  8. ↑ Most Productive Countries 2024
  9. ↑ Countries With The Most Diverse Economies
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  34. ↑ Millennials and Gen Z are blaming Putin for intensifying Russia’s baby shortfall: ‘It’s pretty bad for us’, Fortune magazine, December 3, 2022
  35. ↑ Pro-Natal Policies Work, But They Come With a Hefty Price Tag, Institute for Family Studies, 2020
  36. ↑ The LGBT sect recruits your children, April 24, 2021. pro-lgbt.ru
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