Now You Know: Not Ukraine Or West, Russia’s Biggest War Is One That Putin Can’t Win With Missiles & Drones | HT Podcast

Welcome to HT's show, Now You Know, where Ananya Dutta takes you beyond the surface of news stories. You might have come across these subjects before, but have you ever stopped and thought about their history, their impact today, and where they might be heading in the future? From politics to technology, culture to science, we’re here to make you think differently about the world around us.Russia says it wants to protect “traditional values.” But what does that actually look like on the ground? In a country where the population is shrinking at one of the fastest rates in the world, the Kremlin has quietly shifted the responsibility of national survival onto women, pressuring them to have more children, even as economic insecurity, domestic violence, and war take a heavier toll every year. So, what happens when the state uses motherhood as a tool of policy? What happens when incentives push vulnerable families to have children they cannot protect? And what happens when the war in Ukraine wipes out the very generation Russia depends on for its future?Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A1l6H6tfYVE