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videospirit posted...

The casualties on Russia's side can't be having that big of an impact on a societal scale can it? I'd think it would take at least a million casualties to have a massive societal impact in a nation with like 160 million people unless the people they're targeting with their draft have an outsize influence on society.

Russia is on the verge of a demographic crisis. The population skews older because it has one of the lowest fertility rates in the world, the excess deaths from both COVID and the war have driven death rates waaaay above birth rates, and the people being drafted and killed in the war are coming from demographic groups that are already hurting. And on top of everything else, hundreds of thousands of people have also fled the country to escape repression and the draft since the war started.