I heard a great take, that due to low demographics across all developed countries - wars are costly. But also costly in terms of killing people who are about to

I heard a great take, that due to low demographics across all developed countries - wars are costly. But also costly in terms of killing people who are about to start family and have kids. If your country has already sub-replacement birthrates. It makes no sense to send young people to die. its better to send people who already had kids (30-40+). That's why Ukraine doesn't really want to lover the age of conscription. Russia having never-ending young poor people to die in trenches is a lie, they actually have a demograpic gap in young males. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/... Also young females are leaving en masse too. Its going to be a massive problem for russia in 20 years (i am fully aware putin couldnt give a flying f** about what will happen to russia in 20 years)