Good thread on Russian demographics and the implications...
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1504585616834457619
Well worth a click.
tl;dr - reward soldiers for defecting, put them up in empty tourist hotels, send Instagrams back home, etc.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kamil Galeev @kamilkazani
How to sabotage Russian war efforts?
There are ways to sabotage Russian war capacities by focusing on its three major bottlenecks: demographic, economic & institutional. Let's start with demography. Russian started this war suffering from the shortage of young draftable males🧵
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XX century put end to this. Death toll of collectivisation, purges, and the WWII was devastating. Consider this photo of public street dances in late 1940s. Girls are dancing together, cuz boys are dead. From the high school class of 1941 only 3% were alive by the end of the war
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Well worth a click.
tl;dr - reward soldiers for defecting, put them up in empty tourist hotels, send Instagrams back home, etc.
Cheers,
Scott.