"Putin is driving Russia straight into a wall"
As a guest on French news channel LCI, General Michel Yakovleff, former vice chief of staff of NATO, analyzed the conflict caused by Putin's Russia from a demographic point of view.
For the French general: "Russia is heading straight for a wall, economically, socially, culturally and this is happening since Putin came to power, not since 2022. The invasion of Ukraine in 2022 only accelerates the fall of Russia and it's for logical and structural reasons."
And Michel Yakovleff puts forward a purely demographic reason:
"Russia has 144 million inhabitants, in 2050 there will be 120 million, and not only will they be much fewer, but they will be much older, in reality that's the future of Russia, you cannot fight against demographics, we really have long-term reasons to be optimistic"
(MH with FM/Source: LCI/Photo: DPA/Jan Schmidt-Whitley/Le Pictorium)