Yeah. If you look at Western industrial countries and the big players in Asia, we're ALL in a demographic time bomb. We have too many old people and not nearly enough children to support them. In some cases, we're so far below the levels of population replacement that these countries won't be able to fill their own jobs in their current economies within 10-15 years.

This is why the EU and US are so aggressively importing the third world. Their war on the psyches of white women has produced a cohort of women who think their role in society is to be an expendable wage slave instead of a breeder. They talk like men, work like men, f... like men, etc, and they're told they're "strong and independent" and liberated. Meanwhile, they're not making babies, not having families, and deeply unhappy with it. And society is now risking collapse... not just the Ponzi schemes that are the social welfare programs, but entire economies. Russia has the lowest birth rates of all of them. Decades of Soviet psych warfare and abortion as birth control, and now Putin's trying to rebuild, just as Orban in Hungary and Duda in Poland are.

But yeah, I think Putin's nearing the end of his political life and he's trying to create a legacy as a builder. He's laying the groundwork for future prosperity. He's putting the framework in place for someone, likely Medvedev, to take over.