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| | [[File:Georgetown 2.jpg|thumbnail|center|250px|[[Georgetown University]]'s Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates that most wars lasting over a year extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.<ref>[https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-does-it-end-what-past-wars-tell-us-about-how-save-ukraine#:~:text=Wars%20that%20end%20within%20a,average%2C%20resulting%20in%20sporadic%20clashes. How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine], 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website </ref>]] | | [[File:Georgetown 2.jpg|thumbnail|center|250px|[[Georgetown University]]'s Center for Strategic and International Studies indicates that most wars lasting over a year extend to over a decade on average, resulting in sporadic clashes.<ref>[https://www.csis.org/analysis/how-does-it-end-what-past-wars-tell-us-about-how-save-ukraine#:~:text=Wars%20that%20end%20within%20a,average%2C%20resulting%20in%20sporadic%20clashes. How Does It End? What Past Wars Tell Us about How to Save Ukraine], 2022, Center for Strategic and International Studies website </ref>]] |
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| − | == Consequences to Russia as this war has dragged on in terms of its demographic crisis ==
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| − | [[File:Putin I'm not bluffing.PNG|thumbnail|200px|center|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".<ref>[https://fortune.com/2022/10/18/russia-population-historic-decline-emigration-war-plunging-birth-rate-form-perfect-storm/ Russia’s population is in a historic decline as emigration, war and a plunging birth rate form a ‘perfect storm’], Fortune magazine, 2022</ref> ]]
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| − | War in Ukraine causing Russia's demographic crisis worse:
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| − | *[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R--yq_RfvMY Russia Facing Population Disaster - Demographic Crisis, Employee Shortages & Economic Crisis]
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| − | *[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/02/26/russia-stares-population-abyss-putin-sends-young-men-die/ Russia stares into population abyss as Putin sends its young men to die], ''The Telegraph'', February 2023
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| − | *[https://archive.md/shYl8#selection-335.0-335.16 Millennials and Gen Z are blaming Putin for intensifying Russia’s baby shortfall: ‘It’s pretty bad for us’], Fortune magazine, December 3, 2022
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| − | *[https://healthpolicy-watch.news/russia-population-drop/ Dramatic Population Drop in Russia, as War, COVID and Emigration Exacerbate Declining Births], 6/03/2023
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| − | *[https://theweek.com/russia/1017914/russias-catastrophic-missing-men-problem Russia's 'catastrophic' missing men problem], ''The Week'', 2023
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| − | *[https://english.elpais.com/opinion/the-global-observer/2023-04-19/russias-population-shrinks-and-chinas-ages.html Russia’s population shrinks and China’s ages], Shifting demographics are posing unprecedented challenges for China and Russia, 2023
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| | == User: Conservative essays on geopolitics == | | == User: Conservative essays on geopolitics == |
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