A Million Dead in Ukraine & Democracy Backslides Across The World | PDB 17/09/24

In this episode of The PDB Afternoon Bulletin:

• We’ll start off with the war in Ukraine, where estimates show that deaths and injuries from the conflict on both sides have reached roughly one million, fueling concerns of an impending population crisis.

• Then, we’ll turn to a discouraging report that reveals democracy is backsliding across the globe, with 2023 seeing the largest decline in credible elections and parliamentary oversight in nearly 50 years.

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[alexblue]

Britain has thousands of illegal Immigrants we can give you

[Robert-yd]

Mike. The acronym for Ukraine is UA, not UK. Of course, UK is Britain. United Kingdom.

[FrontLinePub]

If Ukraine has 80k KIA, then there is no way Ukraine would be facing a shortage of soldiers like they have.

Most brigades are below 50% manning.

[clintcameron]

Thanks for the insight. T
his attack from today brings such a dark black mirror moment in history. Didn't pay to be a a radical today

[johnfire]

я просто иду в комнату отдыха, чтобы перекусить

[vibingwithbeefy]

Pager dealer in Lebanon - here is the best pager. It's the best bang for your buck

[PerryHowell-hv]

Given the way much of the west views and treats itself and its own allies (such as israel), and given the massive effort put forth by the enemies of democracy for decades now, and witnessing their impact (ie the ubuiquity of western disdain for Israel), ill be suprised if democracy and the west as we know it survives another century..

[liamo]

Pagers show how lithium batterys can be used as weapons. I heard some one say they planted small bombs in the pagers😂😂😂

[tomcook]

Someone was wondering why his new pager was so much heavier than his old one, now he knows

[Namwithnnumbrs]

I think you can be objective without having to be robotic

[GenX]

You're just rainbows and sunshine 24x7

[purdunetae]

I don't get the problem with declining birth rates. Yes I understand the theory that less people equals less productivity, wealth, and such. That does what so many other theories does, assume everything stays the same. Before the coof, the rage was Universal Basic Income. Even Musk was saying we need it. Currently in the USA we pay millions of people to be non productive. Technology has come leaps and bounds. Yes we still need people who work with their hands but not as many as we used to need. For instance you would have a shop dedicated to fixing TV and radios. Now robotic manufacturing has it so that almost everything is cheaper to buy new then to fix. Warfare is the same. Wait until Lockhead does a lessons learned in Ukraine. You will have a container that gets dumped out of a cargo plane, does a burn, glides 75 miles, then 1, 000 golf ball sized drones start popping people in the head. All run by a kid in Colorado Springs who is really just managing an AI.

Declining birth rates is a great thing! When humans experience starvation, war, and other disasters we breed like rats. It's biology. When 30% of our kids don't die by age two. When food and security are bountiful. When the odd are pretty good that our children will make it to productive adults, we tend to equalize our population. It's smart biology so you don't keep growing your population and eat all your resources.