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I disagree with policies that constrain speech, would not want to do this in the US, and I'm skeptical that this is going to work, but I will give them this: Russia does have a serious demographic problem, and they're at least trying to solve it.
https://www.populationpyramid.net/russian-federation/2023/
There are a long list of points on which Russia has constrained speech that have fuck-all to deal with real national concerns and are just about benefiting the current government in power at the expense of the country. But here, they're actually trying to address a real and serious national problem.
And Russia volunteering to be a guinea pig will at least provide data that benefits everyone else. If it works, then we learn something, and if it doesn't work, then we learn something. My guess is that it'll be the latter, but this is the empirical way to determine that.
We don't have a policy answer yet to maintaining a sustainable fertility rate either, so it's not as if we have a tested alternative available.
I have a better idea. Instead of stealing bodily autonomy from women, Russia could stop fighting a war that has claimed the lives of at least half a million of their citizens. They could stop enacting policies that result in young people fleeing their country. They could embrace immigration and work to improve the happiness and social mobility of their populace.
What Russia is doing here is not a good-faith effort to fix their population issues.