I just read that over 160.000 Ukranian men have died in the war and over 400.000 have been wounded, the rest of the population is scattered around Europe, and the population still living in the country will have to deal with the destruction of builidings and civilian infrastructure. Ukraine was already in debt before the war and now It's gonna be a way worse problem.
Even if Ukraine manages to get a "victory" over Russia, how is it gonna rebuild the country without money and without people, because I honestly don't think that many Ukranian refugees will come back home after the war.
They will. Being a refugee kinda sucks, many still have family & friends in Ukraine as well as their homes (if it's still standing). There are a decent number or refugees already returning out of their own volition while the war is still ongoing. People are attached to their homes, and living in a different country where you don't speak the language etc isn't great.
Also, a lot of European countries will simply kick them out once the war is over, again, this is already happening in some places. The majority of Ukrainians will return, guaranteed.
And 160.000 dead is a huge, tragic number, but it's not enough to cause a dent in the 40 million population of Ukraine. It's a really big country.
Ukraine is fucked because it'll get looted by foreign capital the second the war ends, manpower is gonna be the least of their worries.
Small correction: the looting is already happening. They have a website for auctioning off government-owned property.
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Last I saw before the war the population of Ukraine was estimated at around 30 million. 40 is what it was when the ussr collapsed.
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Add another 10 million to the black book of communism everyone
I think Ukraine's population was on a trend to reach zero by 2100.
From what I understand the two main things capital wants to loot are farm land and manpower. They want all the productive farm land as climate change gets worse, and they want tens of millions of destitute Ukrainians to drive wages down and keep them down across Europe.