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By the end of 2023? What did you agree on for the definitions of "lose handily", "large swaths of Eastern Ukraine", and "effectively part of Russia"? From a lo

By the end of 2023? What did you agree on for the definitions of "lose handily", "large swaths of Eastern Ukraine", and "effectively part of Russia"? From a long term perspective, Russia has already lost handily - the cratering of the male fighting-age population (either from casualties or from fleeing the country) will be nearly impossible to recover from.

mnky9800n 3y ago
They also ejected much of the intelligentsia from the country who had the means to leave.
- thc-27182 3y ago
  Russia has done that before though...
  - mnky9800n 3y ago
    Yes. It's not like Putin's playbook is new.
timbit42 3y ago
> the cratering of the male fighting-age population (either from casualties or from fleeing the country) will be nearly impossible to recover from. This is happening to Ukraine as well. Ukrainians are not having children right now.
- tivert 3y ago
  > This is happening to Ukraine as well. Ukrainians are not having children right now. Even before the war, they weren't having very many. Now they're having even less. https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1155943055/ukraine-low-birth-rate-russia-war https://www.npr.org/2023/02/22/1155943055/ukraine-low-birth-...