A chart has been doing the rounds on Twitter that appears to show a dramatic fall in the number of men in Ukraine. Two population pyramids are overlaid – one for 2021 and one for 2023 – with the latter indicating a substantially smaller young and middle-aged population:
The alleged source of the chart is a Times article by Maxim Tucker. However, the article does not currently display the chart; nor do any of the archived versions that I found. According to a Russian journalist who posted a screenshot of what appears to be the original version, “The editors of The Times realized that they showed too shocking data of the demographic catastrophe in Ukraine, and removed the corresponding graphics”.
But I’m sceptical. If the editors did in fact remove the chart (before anyone archived the article), a more plausible explanation is that it’s simply not accurate.
As you can see in the lower left-hand corner, the source of the data is given as the UN Population Division. I found the relevant page on their website, and sure enough it shows the same two population pyramids. So whoever made the chart actually did use the UN’s data. But this only means the UN is wrong!
According the UN Human Rights Commissioner, approximately 8 million people have left Ukraine since Russia’s invasion last year. So there has been a dramatic fall in population. Yet crucially, 87% of Ukrainian refugees are women. (A recent EU report gives an even higher figure of 91%.) The reason for the imbalance is simple: men are banned from leaving the country.
Despite this well known fact, the chart above shows an approximately equal sized fall in the male and female population. Which could be interpreted as showing that millions of Ukrainian men have died in battle – something that’s wildly implausible.
On 17th March, BBC News Service Russia estimated from publicly available data that up to 47,000 men have died on the Russian side. Even if Ukrainian losses are three times greater (and I don’t think they are), that would still be ‘only’ 150,000 men. This amounts to less than 1% of the pre-war male population – nowhere near as large as the change shown on the chart.
It’s possible that when the UN made the 2023 population pyramid for Ukraine, they forgot to account for the female skew among refugees, and hence divided the 8 million shortfall equally between the two sexes. I don’t know.
Ukraine faces a profound demographic crisis: the loss of millions of educated young women, many of whom may not return once the war’s over. However, there’s no evidence the country has lost millions of men.
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Nitrogen problem – pseudoscientific nonsense.
It’s also ‘funny’ how all these crisis involve something invisible. The only connection with any of these invisible ‘dangers’ is through graphs, tables and diagrams, supplied by those that have solutions. Those graphs, tables and diagrams will always have a scale that exaggerates the supposed threat while using dramatic colours, and sometimes dramatic music.
Here are a few:
Coronavirus, or any virus
Bacteria (any)
CO2
Nitrogen
Carbon
Methane
Unconscious biases
Don’t forget the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Not to mention the Methane under the world’s super volcanos, Yellowstone Caldera et al. We must unplug them.
And “models”. ——Which the blob continues to call “science”. —–A model is no more “science” than a calculator is “mathematics”.
Funny how the solution to every “crisis” involves the state taking away your freedoms, your property, and making you poorer.
But you will be happy!
The issue of dodgy chemicals and gases – Co2, Nitrogen – what’s next – is simply a cover for the depopulation agenda.
Annihilating the food and farming sector will result in mass hunger. In the first instance this will create compliant populations. As the situation is progressively made worse hunger will be replaced by starvation, ill health and mass deaths, probably enhanced by another so-called virus, let’s call this one chicken ‘flu for arguments sake.
So blatant.
Stealing the farmer’s land give elites control of food production (i.e. cut it) and make way to build the Tristate City
It’s not the first time in history that a narrative change is brought about to let another elite come to power and enrich itself over the former.
But it is the first time in history that this new elite openly pursues all that with an agenda that will deliberately lead to the impoverishment and enslavement of the plebs instead of at least promising them a better future.
And that this happens now, when the plebs actually had a say, at least a much larger one than in their previous history, and that these plebs enabled and continue to enable them to do just that, is equally unique in history and completely farcical.
Absolutely. It is astonishing and demoralising in equal measures that these fithy, corrupt, pocket-lining b’stards actually tell us to our face that we must accept that we will become a lot poorer – and very few people seem to understand that we do not have to accept any such thing. That even if one accepts that the excess spending under corona (and prior, bailing out banks and untenable currency unions) will inevitably lead to some belt tightening, this does not mean we have to accept that this will be a permanent thing (which is very much what is being implied by these criminals), and, more importantly – if these pocket-fillers have no other promises than inevitable, perpetual poverty and a lower standard of living, what exactly do we need them for? If they do not even wish to pretend they will make our lives better, they may as well faff off, we could not possibly do any worse without them.
BBB did do well, it was an earthquake, but I don’t think it will carry through to the general election. At the end of the day, the legacy parties still got far too many votes. Frans Timmermans, EU ‘green’ czar, member of the Dutch Labour Party, is one of the main drivers of the intentional impoverishment of millions of people. Yesterday he proudly announced even more taxes and financial suffering for the average citizen. The same fat cat who gets 26,000 euros a month tax free, and was bunged 1800 euros a month (more than the Dutch monthly minimum wage) to pay for his increased electricity bill. His party actually gained a seat in the senate! Apparently a lot of midwits agree with the sentiment that some pigs are indeed more equal than others.
Eva makes an excellent point that NL is a major exporter of agricultural products. The liars in the cabinet are making out that destroying this position will have little to no consequence for the economy! They are also trying to turn Schiphol Airport into a small provincial airport, again claiming this will make no difference to the economy.
Their actions will absolutely destroy the economy, the only area where zero difference will be seen is in their precious emissions BS. My own opinion, for what it’s worth: both Germany and NL are intentionally being brought down as that is the only way to ‘save’ the euro – the Target2 imbalances have been ignored, but are still there. The original plan to bring the poorer countries up to the level of the richer countries will never happen, so the easiest thing (other than admitting the euro was a monumental mistake) is to make the richer countries poorer. Makes no odds to the Brussels mob, they will never suffer financially one way or the other. I do take some solace from the fact that they love trees so much. Useful things, trees.
Thanks for the update Jane.
Very useful things, trees. Historically traitors were hung from them. By the neck until dead
But most people busy with work and family life have no time to investigate every issue. They think their TV news Channels are doing that for them. So when they come in after a long day and switch on the TV News in between doing up the dishes and getting little Sarah and Johnny to run along and do their homework they might see something on the TV about some big flood or typhoon and hear it’s all because of “climate change”. ——They think it’s all true and that it has all to do with “science”, and those scientists know what they are talking about so who am I to disagree? ———They cannot tell the difference between “science” and “official science”. —-If they don’t wake up soon they will be getting allocated an appointment to have their gas central heating removed, and a heat pump fitted and a 15,000 quid bill to pay for it.
I get the sense that Malthusian psychopaths have decided life should become more difficult in order to discourage people from breeding. Reducing the food supply ( = driving up the cost) is just a small part of that effort. Climate anxiety, economic anxiety, breakdown in social trust, breakdown in traditional gender roles; all driving down the birth rate, mostly of the middle classes, and mostly in western nations.
But perhaps it’s an emergent phenomena, symptoms of a civilisation collapsing inward into dust, like an old, desiccated piece of fruit; its energy and goodness long-gone, hollowed out by maggots.
Or it could be simply what Hux P. has been saying all along – these sociopaths really want to cull hundreds of millions of people. Either because they really believe human sacrifice is necessary to save the planet or because they just want more of everything for themselves.
The latter
Doesn’t the name Custer mean anything to these sociopaths?
Paradoxically though poverty and starvation cause an increase in birth rates.
When these scares come about they talk as though the Nitrogen in the air just builds up and up and never goes away. And yet one way or another we have been putting nitrogen in the air for years and years and we are all still here today. Nitrogen moves around in a complex 5 stage cycle, any thought that there is a nitrogen problem should involve a proper consideration of the nitrogen cycle.If there is a problem at all, and that’s a big if, then we can address it by a proper consideration of the nitrogen cycle and how to farm in harmony with a balanced nitrogen cycle.
For 70 years fertiliser has been cheap and readily available and farmers have been encouraged to apply it with gay abandon. But we do not have to farm that way, modern technology has given us the means for much more precision and targeted use. Much could be done to reduce nitrogen use and waste without the need to stop farming. The fact that any sort of dialogue with farmers is being eschewed and they are going straight for a stop farming approach, clearly shows that this is not about farming nor about nitrogen usage it is a far more sinister, insidious and inhuman agenda and must be called out and stopped.
You hit the nail on the head.
Further illustrated by a chart the Dutch government produced with Nitrogen hotspots, and using this chart to decide which farms had to go.
It was shown the chart was based on nothing and they had to retract.
I don’t think it’s about nitrogen gas emissions, nitrogen makes up 70% of the atmosphere, but chemical run off from fertilisers which the EU wants to get rid of because they are produced using fossil fuel.
It’s still total b@ll@cks though.
When you know yourself and the enemy, you won’t have to fear for the outcome of a hundred battles. When you know yourself but don’t know the enemy, every victory you win will be followed by a defeat. When you know neither yourself nor the enemy, all of your battles will end in defeat.
[Sun Tzu, The Art of War]
So-called EU bureaucrats are responsible for achieving political goals formulated by the governing body a of the EU, the council of the representatives of the elected governments of the EU member states (depending on the topic and scope of the issue, such a representative will either be a certain minister or the head of government). They have no political power to act on their own behalf. If there are emission reduction committments people of the Netherlands have to suffer, then, the chances are very high that Ratte (German for rat) was among those who voted for them.
The only crisis we have is an abundance of free loading parasitic political class.
Perfect and concise summary of our current problems. Thank you.
Nitrogen Crisis Faked to steal farms
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Stand in the Park Make friends & keep sane
Sundays 10.30am to 11.30am
Elms Field
near play area
Wokingham RG40 2FE
Control the food, control the people.
Page 2 of the Marxist handbook.
The Dutch people need to understand that they are in a battle they MUST win.
Lose it, and they will be surrendering to totalitarian rule by Eco Nutters who don’t give a rats ar$e about Dutch Farmers, the Dutch people or anything else, except their Agenda of control.
If the Dutch don’t win their battle we may well all be doomed.
I used to love Eva on the Mark Steyn Show, but the blob not only want rid of CO2 and Nitrogen they hope to be rid of Steyn and Eva as well and anyone else that gets in the way of their plan to totally control everything we do. As someone once pointed out “The urge to save humanity is almost always a false face for the urge to rule it”.
It’s bloody obvious they are making it up as they go along ffs, how many more dangerous atmospheric gases will need to be net-zeroed before they want to get rid of oxygen? Will the compliant fall for that one too when the narrative (propaganda) is hyped on BBC/ MSM?
Schoolboy science classes once upon a time told us that Earth’s atmosphere is made up of approximately 78 percent nitrogen and 21 percent oxygen. It apparently also has small amounts of other gases too, such as carbon dioxide, neon, and hydrogen which make up the other 1%
According to these people, our planet is killing us. Perhaps we ought to start net-zeroing the whole bloody planet to save ourselves.
I’m eagerly awaiting the phosphorus crisis.
Most of the earth’s atmosphere is nitrogen.
The end solution/result of this is that the authorities will own or control everything and the people will have to obey the authorities.