Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine

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Putin is urging women to have as many as 8 children after so many Russians died in his war with Ukraine
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Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging Russians to have more children. 
"Large families must become the norm," Putin said in a speech Tuesday. 
Russian birth rates are falling amid war in Ukraine and a deepening economic crisis. 

Russian President Vladimir Putin is urging women to have as many as eight children as the number of dead Russian soldiers continues to rise in his war with Ukraine, worsening the country's population crisis.

Addressing the World Russian People's Council in Moscow on Tuesday, Putin said the country must return to a time when large families were the norm.

"Many of our grandmothers and great-grandmothers, had seven, eight, or even more children," Putin said.

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Ordinary Western and US propaganda - no matter what Putin may do, it's a sign of his weakness. Whether he eats ice cream, smiles, fucks women, sleeps, urges the women to give birth to more children, washes his teeth or itches his left shoulder -- it's a proof that he's weak.

In reality, he's ever stronger and supported by the russians -- thanks to none other than the West and US.

Yeah the media have a tendency to exaggerate his flaws but this isn't a well thought out move, it's probably a mix of that white birther thing musk is into and general desperation at the industrial and military problems he faces.

The reality is Russia is not doing well economically, Russian families can't afford to bring up eight kids even in the poverty conditions they're getting increasingly used to. The Russian state can't afford even the shitty education kids get now so it's certainly not going to cope if there was a sudden baby boom.

This isn't a well thought out economic, social, or moral plan so what else is it beside foolish bluster and weak minded desperation?

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