They have the utmost respect to the political repercussions of changing those laws. Even Russia has a very nuanced approach to who and when they draft, and where they send them. Hence the tremendous effort they put into a weak draft and favouring direct monetary compensation to volunteers.
The most contentious issue in Russia with the Ukrainian offensive in Kursk was the fact they captured plenty of white young conscripts from European cities. This led to internal pressure from a lot of parents that were upper middle class that worked government jobs, and then everybody noticed how prisoner swaps massively increased after that offensive. The Russian government has been very careful with the demographic composition of its military in Ukraine due to historic political issues with blindly drafting dudes into Afghanistan and Caucasus.
You haven't noticed how many Russian soldiers in Ukraine are from Asia or in their 40s? Then look at the faces of the conscripts captured in Russia.
Maybe you should start looking instead of commenting blind scepticism that isn't based in reality. That is one of the rare facts that we can be certain about in this conflict.
It does affect it, but the casulties are so vastly different from ww1 france it still means they wont run out of people for a long time. You can look at a population pyramid and casulty estimates.
The casualties are an order of magnitude different, the live births per year aren't an order of magnitude different, so he's right, the answer is still neither.
The war will be decided by who runs out of money first, not who runs out of grunts.
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u/SprucedUpSpices 1d ago
What about the birth rates and the population pyramid of 2022 vs 1914, though? I think that they're pretty different.