Prescient

This is a country convinced it is in it's last generation 

Yikes! 

My pal, Braumeister, recommended that I check-out material that Peter Zeihan has published.

This presentation from 2017 nailed-it, spot-on.

I had always understood the basic crumbling demographics in Russia and how this was contributing to it's growing status as a failed state.  Nevertheless, watching this in 2022 is pretty incredible - the main points he made in 2017 (falling population, degrading demography) are contributing circumstances behind the Ukrainian invasion. 

On Friday the Soviets announced they were eliminating age limits for military service.  Clearly the demographic squeeze has been complicated by the growing casualty toll from the Ukraine aggression and now requires that Putin cast a wider net for additional cannon fodder.  Just as the Nazis had to conscript children and old men before their capitulation so does the Russian warlord. 

It is all coming true...