I figure Hitler miscounted when he set out to conquer the world: there weren't enough Germans to go around. Putin may be making a related error.
In terms of population, Russia is slightly larger than Mexico. In Russia deaths outnumber births. Russia is losing about 1% of its population each year. Among the white ethnic Russians, the birthrate is about 1.6 children per woman. The replacement rate is 2.1.
These facts may help explain why Putin set out to add the white inhabitants of Crimea and now Ukraine to Russia. It may explain his practice of rounding up small Ukrainian children, telling them their parents no longer want them and then shipping them into Russia to be adopted.
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