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Mot just the NObama regime, but all of Europe is at a loss as how to contain Putin, only Communist China awaits to pounce...
Some thoughts and stats...
"The Russian death rate in 2010 was 14.3 per 1000 citizens. For comparison, the US death rate in 2009 was 8.4 per 1000 .
The population of Russia peaked at 148,689,000 in 1991, just before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Low birth rates and abnormally high death rates caused Russia's population to decline at a 0.5% annual rate, or about 750,000 to 800,000 people per year from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The UN warned in 2005 that Russia's then population of about 143 million could fall by a third by 2050
While the Russian birth rate is comparable to that of other developed countries, its death rate is much higher, especially among working-age males due to a comparatively high rate of fatalities caused by heart disease and other external causes such as accidents. The Russian death rate in 2010 was 14.3 per 1000 citizens."
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/news/russia-poisions-her-people
"Russia has the largest gap between male and female life expectancy in the world, 14 years, and their deaths have out numbered their births by such a wide margin for such a long period of time they have a serious declining population problem. If you look at their leading causes of death you might think Poisoning is the problem, but that doesn't even begin to tell the story. Russia's poison problem is Alcohol. The World Health Organization estimates that just 40% of school age Russians will live to the Pension age of 55-60, if something isn't done about the problem.
Some Russian doctors believe alcohol related diseases cause as many as 50% of Russian deaths between the ages of 15 and 54, making alcohol related deaths a key factor in their long term demographic forecasts.
“By some estimates alcohol was responsible for 500,000 deaths last year alone.
“Russian population is declining by one million per year…”
~~~
Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...russias-invasion-of-georgia-means-for-crimea/
“This is a guest post by University of Connecticut political scientist Stephen Benedict Dyson, based on an exclusive interview with Daniel Fata, the Pentagon official who coordinated the U.S. response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia.
The crisis in Ukraine has a recent precedent: Russia’s aggression in Georgia in August 2008. For an insider’s view on what happened then and what the stakes are now, I talked via e-mail with Daniel Fata, deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy from September 2005 to September 2008.
Fata, who was the senior Pentagon official on duty supporting Defense Secretary Robert Gates as news of Russia’s invasion broke, believes that Putin was “never punished by the international community” for the aggression in Georgia. Crimea, Fata adds, “is in many ways a redux” of the August 2008 war. Back then there was a period of confusion as the conflict broke out late on a Thursday night when many senior officials were out of town, and there was no well-established U.S. or European position on the issue. “We were scrambling for information during these critical initial hours. My desk officer, who had great personal ties at the highest levels in Tbilisi, had the most usable real time information via texts from his friends in Georgia.”
Fata is suspicious of Putin’s claim that his intervention in Ukraine is limited in scope and designed to protect Russian citizens. Putin gave similar assurances to the United States over Georgia, Fata recalls. “He lied.” Putin’s intention all along in Georgia was to bring about the end of the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili, who survived in office but whose standing was weakened by the war. In Crimea, Fata is convinced that Putin’s ultimate objective is “to try and take Kiev if he can, and if the consequences aren’t too severe for him.”
The United States should have three goals in the current crisis, in Fata’s view: Russia must be deterred from attempting to advance any further into Ukraine; the United States must reassure its allies and partners in the region that their security will be guaranteed; and Russian gains must be rolled back. In Georgia, the United States achieved the first two of these goals, but to this day has not accomplished a roll-back of Russian gains. Fata believes achieving these goals is critical not only for Ukraine but for the credibility of U.S. policy in the region and around the world. “We cannot seem to be weak or hesitant. That doesn’t mean mobilize yet but it does mean we need to be resolute and have some form of an actual, executable plan for how we will shore up our allies.”
(I watched in interview with the former Secretary Gates, just last evening…he is even more convinced…)
~~~
The median life-span for Russian men of this generation, 47 years.
Russia’s birth rate below replacement values at 1.7 births per woman.
People leaving Russia, if they can, emigrating out and no one wants to migrate to Russia.
Some abstractions and drawn conclusions…
Attempting to bolster Russian National Pride by expansion and conquest, Putin is going virtually unchallenged by Europe and America as he begins to re-acquire former Soviet Bloc Countries.
Opinion… not just the collapse of the Communists, but the concept of socialism itself, are the root causes beneath population decline in Russia, Europe, the United States and Japan.
The concept of self sacrifice for the greater good is destructive of the individual human spirit and is reflected by apathy towards child bearing, family, and the future.
Another cause, which I will deal with later, is the rise of the independent woman seeking her own fulfillment in society, outside the traditional family foundation.
~~~
Countries at risk///
• Hungarian People's Republic
• Polish People's Republic
• Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Socialist Republic of Romania
• German Democratic Republic
People's Republic of Albania
(to 1961)
• People's Republic of Bulgaria
USSR in 1939–1940[edit]
Main articles: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Soviet invasion of Poland, Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Winter War and Moscow Armistice
In 1939, the USSR entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany[6] that contained a secret protocol that divided Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence.[6][7] Eastern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia in northern Romania were recognized as parts of the Soviet sphere of influence.[7] Lithuania was added in a second secret protocol in September 1939.[8]
~~~
The questions floating across the news around the world, in discussion and debate, is just how far Putin will go to regain those areas lost at the collapse of the Soviet Union and who, if anyone will attempt to stop him… and… how…
amicus
Some thoughts and stats...
"The Russian death rate in 2010 was 14.3 per 1000 citizens. For comparison, the US death rate in 2009 was 8.4 per 1000 .
The population of Russia peaked at 148,689,000 in 1991, just before the breakup of the Soviet Union. Low birth rates and abnormally high death rates caused Russia's population to decline at a 0.5% annual rate, or about 750,000 to 800,000 people per year from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. The UN warned in 2005 that Russia's then population of about 143 million could fall by a third by 2050
While the Russian birth rate is comparable to that of other developed countries, its death rate is much higher, especially among working-age males due to a comparatively high rate of fatalities caused by heart disease and other external causes such as accidents. The Russian death rate in 2010 was 14.3 per 1000 citizens."
http://www.worldlifeexpectancy.com/news/russia-poisions-her-people
"Russia has the largest gap between male and female life expectancy in the world, 14 years, and their deaths have out numbered their births by such a wide margin for such a long period of time they have a serious declining population problem. If you look at their leading causes of death you might think Poisoning is the problem, but that doesn't even begin to tell the story. Russia's poison problem is Alcohol. The World Health Organization estimates that just 40% of school age Russians will live to the Pension age of 55-60, if something isn't done about the problem.
Some Russian doctors believe alcohol related diseases cause as many as 50% of Russian deaths between the ages of 15 and 54, making alcohol related deaths a key factor in their long term demographic forecasts.
“By some estimates alcohol was responsible for 500,000 deaths last year alone.
“Russian population is declining by one million per year…”
~~~
Georgia, Crimea, Ukraine…
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...russias-invasion-of-georgia-means-for-crimea/
“This is a guest post by University of Connecticut political scientist Stephen Benedict Dyson, based on an exclusive interview with Daniel Fata, the Pentagon official who coordinated the U.S. response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia.
The crisis in Ukraine has a recent precedent: Russia’s aggression in Georgia in August 2008. For an insider’s view on what happened then and what the stakes are now, I talked via e-mail with Daniel Fata, deputy assistant secretary of defense for European and NATO policy from September 2005 to September 2008.
Fata, who was the senior Pentagon official on duty supporting Defense Secretary Robert Gates as news of Russia’s invasion broke, believes that Putin was “never punished by the international community” for the aggression in Georgia. Crimea, Fata adds, “is in many ways a redux” of the August 2008 war. Back then there was a period of confusion as the conflict broke out late on a Thursday night when many senior officials were out of town, and there was no well-established U.S. or European position on the issue. “We were scrambling for information during these critical initial hours. My desk officer, who had great personal ties at the highest levels in Tbilisi, had the most usable real time information via texts from his friends in Georgia.”
Fata is suspicious of Putin’s claim that his intervention in Ukraine is limited in scope and designed to protect Russian citizens. Putin gave similar assurances to the United States over Georgia, Fata recalls. “He lied.” Putin’s intention all along in Georgia was to bring about the end of the government of President Mikheil Saakashvili, who survived in office but whose standing was weakened by the war. In Crimea, Fata is convinced that Putin’s ultimate objective is “to try and take Kiev if he can, and if the consequences aren’t too severe for him.”
The United States should have three goals in the current crisis, in Fata’s view: Russia must be deterred from attempting to advance any further into Ukraine; the United States must reassure its allies and partners in the region that their security will be guaranteed; and Russian gains must be rolled back. In Georgia, the United States achieved the first two of these goals, but to this day has not accomplished a roll-back of Russian gains. Fata believes achieving these goals is critical not only for Ukraine but for the credibility of U.S. policy in the region and around the world. “We cannot seem to be weak or hesitant. That doesn’t mean mobilize yet but it does mean we need to be resolute and have some form of an actual, executable plan for how we will shore up our allies.”
(I watched in interview with the former Secretary Gates, just last evening…he is even more convinced…)
~~~
The median life-span for Russian men of this generation, 47 years.
Russia’s birth rate below replacement values at 1.7 births per woman.
People leaving Russia, if they can, emigrating out and no one wants to migrate to Russia.
Some abstractions and drawn conclusions…
Attempting to bolster Russian National Pride by expansion and conquest, Putin is going virtually unchallenged by Europe and America as he begins to re-acquire former Soviet Bloc Countries.
Opinion… not just the collapse of the Communists, but the concept of socialism itself, are the root causes beneath population decline in Russia, Europe, the United States and Japan.
The concept of self sacrifice for the greater good is destructive of the individual human spirit and is reflected by apathy towards child bearing, family, and the future.
Another cause, which I will deal with later, is the rise of the independent woman seeking her own fulfillment in society, outside the traditional family foundation.
~~~
Countries at risk///
• Hungarian People's Republic
• Polish People's Republic
• Czechoslovak Socialist Republic
Socialist Republic of Romania
• German Democratic Republic
People's Republic of Albania
(to 1961)
• People's Republic of Bulgaria
USSR in 1939–1940[edit]
Main articles: Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, Soviet invasion of Poland, Occupation of the Baltic states, Soviet occupation of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina, Winter War and Moscow Armistice
In 1939, the USSR entered into the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact with Nazi Germany[6] that contained a secret protocol that divided Romania, Poland, Lithuania, Estonia and Finland into German and Soviet spheres of influence.[6][7] Eastern Poland, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and Bessarabia in northern Romania were recognized as parts of the Soviet sphere of influence.[7] Lithuania was added in a second secret protocol in September 1939.[8]
~~~
The questions floating across the news around the world, in discussion and debate, is just how far Putin will go to regain those areas lost at the collapse of the Soviet Union and who, if anyone will attempt to stop him… and… how…
amicus
