Fertility! And Better than space lasers?

RantWoman presents Russian State TV commentator Margarita Simonyan and her, um, unusual ideas about what will solve Russia's demographic crisis:

Note. Video is in Russian. English translation on the screen is not screen reader accessible. RantWoman has neither validated the automated transcript nor tried to see what happens if the transcript lines are run the Russian transcript through Google translate. Enough of the preposterousness comes through to allow RantWoman to comment, after the video.

Well, yeah, MAYBE when pigs fly and hell freezes. Russia could also get crazy: stop making elites want to fly abroad to avoid military duty, stop feeding more ordinary people to the Ukraine war meat grinder, Russia would not have to rely on magical thinking about Russia somehow being in a position to seduce most people from the US into moving there.

Anther panel arguing about how to raise the birth rate in Russia

For another weird example of Russian propaganda voices, Olga Skabeeva and evgeny Popov

Meanwhile on this side of the pond recently elected Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wants childbearing and particularly forced pregnancy in lieu of comprehensive health care options to solve fiscal problems with Social Security and Medicare, problems that are EASILY fixable with only modest increases in Social Security and Medicare taxes. And supporting existing families, whatever they look like, through things like restoring the #Pandemic era #ChildTaxCredit  would never hurt either.

RantWoman is going to leave things at that, for one thing because she has far too rich a tree of other possible rants and this is enough for one night.