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Putin’s Missing Generation

Putin's Future Condemned: Nine days of Putin’s war now cost as much as Russia once spent in an entire year trying to save its population.

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Jason Jay Smart
Jul 12, 2026
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Russia is engaged in a war against itself that is doing harm from which it will never recover. Consider this: In 2007, the Kremlin began paying Russian families to have more children because the country was running out of people. The maternity subsidy was supposed to produce the workers and taxpayers Russia would need by the 2030s. Now Moscow spends $28…

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