They won’t let guys escape this time - expect stuff like closed borders and an internet lockdown so people can’t spread information or coordinate. They signed a law recently allowing them to seize assets and cut off government services for Russians abroad convicted in absentia for a variety of offenses, so anyone who does leave will probably lose anything they can’t take with them; I’m sure any family members left behind will somehow be guilty of something.

But, yeah - worsening their existing demographic and economic problems is real fuckin’ dumb.