OT? A New Cold War

[kato13]

While Latvian population pyramids are not as upside down as Russian ones are


They both show a very similar dramatic decline in births in the last 20 years. Both the percentage of children and the percentage of Russians have trended steadily downward in the past 2 decades.

If Putin wants new young Russians, maybe a constant loop of Barry White songs would be more effective than invading the Baltics.

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This does put the Latvians in more serious trouble in 15 years when they only have 60% of their current Military age men available. The Russians will have similar demographic problems, but as they have a larger population in general it would probably be easier for them to shift people around.

sources
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Latvia
http://www.indexmundi.com/latvia/age_structure.html