I find it hard to imagine wanting to have kids just so your dictator has more meat to feed into his meat grinder. Perhaps the only good news is Putin hopefully doesn't have 18 more years in him, so the kids won't have to deal with him directly, but who knows who will sit in the throne next...

I wonder if women will start getting medals for babies, like soviet times? Another question, if these women are raising 8 kids, and all the men are dead in a sunflower field south of Avdivika, who the hell is supposed to be working in Russia for the next generation? Just banking on enslaving Ukraine to pay for the cost of enslaving Ukraine?

Hey Putine, let me help …..

All you gotta do is excuse people from military service for being a parent. Pretty soon all military aged males will be parents and you’ll greatly reduce the number of deaths in Ukraine. Win-win

I bet Putin sucks at StarCraft

That's one way to deal with an ageing population demographic.

Another way is to perhaps not throw every able-bodied young man into a militaristic meat grinder because you still yearn for the Soviet Union days.

Ah, so Russian women are broodmares for the state now?

"...so that I can send your children to be killed in my war..." Putin, probably.

Where are these women going to find suitable partners to pick from? The smart ones left or will leave, the others will be growing sunflowers.

Putin seems to be in a competition with Trump for the stupidest authoritarian prize.

Why past tense? They're still dying.

Imma start up a mail order groom app for those russian ladies

Well .. I don't want to say literally Hitler, but ...

So, basically, Putin is telling Russian women to "get fucked for Putin"?

That's why even if Russia wins the war or got some concessions, it will be a Pyrrhic victory. They're already experiencing population decline because of massive emigration aside from lower birth rate (which is why Putin is paying lip service to the conservative religious Russians to promote more birth, and in turn endeared him to conservatives across the world). The war will add to the burden of the Russian people on top of corruption and debt after the conflict.

If this is true, this has to be the ultimate way of not really dealing with the population crisis upon us. Not saying any government is doing a great job here as they are all beating around the bush and not addressing root causes, but this one from Putin has to be the most delusional of them all.

Equal to abortion banning propaganda in the west.

They've had a population crisis in Russia for at least 20 years.

Blood for the blood god.

I have a friend who left Russia to get away from bullshit like the Order of Maternal Glory.

Let's keep going until there's a 1:39 male to female ratio. That'd be ideal. Not strange at all.

Hmm. Sure, Vlad. Wait: how much will that pay, per child per month?

Maybe he doesn't realize it'll take a couple decades, and he'll be dead by then, for any women having children now to see them old enough to fight or have any impact on the country

I knew they weren’t winning, but I didn’t realize things were this bad. Fuck. I mean, yay for Ukraine, but damn, Putin is a horrible human being.

Meat for the meat grinder.

Putin will be remembered as the man who destroyed Russia.