Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for lasers used in chipmaking

Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by Guthur on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:50PM (#30459362)

This is not the reason.

Pure and simply Russia needs people, its dying.

Low birth rate, high death rate, little immigration to make up the short fall (who wants to move to Russia :)), and to top off a weak economy that will struggle to support a small less active workforce. Interestingly Ukraine has pretty much the same population problem.

This will be increasingly common problem for countries as population growth slows.

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by replygirl on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:58PM (#30459466)

ukraine's population growth and birth rates have been negative and below russia's for some time now, so annexation only makes that worse per-capita.

it's not clear that a flattening of the growth rate is a bad thing for quality of life or economic security, in spite of how it affects an economy on paper

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by lurker619 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:43PM (#30460026)

In the long term, perhaps climate change would make russia an attractive destination for immigration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SY9NjD_5WWo

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by javajosh on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:52PM (#30459394)

Aging population implies a decades spike in demand for elder care. How does it imply an invasion?

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by Guthur on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:00PM (#30459493)

You need a strong services based economy to support an aged population, this is not what russia has by a long shot.

Russia has few choices to fix this in timeline they'd have to work with. Population demographics take a long time to solve peacefully.

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by partiallypro on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:14PM (#30459677)

The entire Western world is declining birth rates. It's very worrying. People complained about over population, but a nose dive in birth rates can become near irreversable.

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by rodgerd on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:29PM (#30460558)

There is no lack of people in the world. This is only an issue if you have some sort of deep-set racist need to only be around people of a particular skin colour.

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Re:Ukraine is a major producer of neon gas, critical for las... by cik2e on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:10PM (#30460986)

The issue is what happens when you have a vast population of childless retirees and not enough younger working people to subsidize their existence.

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