True on all fronts.
You are right God will punish nations and whole people for turning away from his words and embracing sin.
Does make you think about the fate of the Western countries?
My nation (Australia) is alien to what I grew up. It almost like living in Babylon in many of the cities.

Also by the way thank you for the support during 2021 with the covid stuff. I am still angry by what the governments did and amount of Australians that could the dam vax.

I have been reading Jeremiah and what you have said in regards to the Ukrainians have done has reminded me of some scripture.

Jeremiah 19
4 “Because they have forsaken Me and made this an alien place, because they have burned incense in it to other gods whom neither they, their fathers, nor the kings of Judah have known, and have filled this place with the blood of the innocents 5 (they have also built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons with fire for burnt offerings to Baal, which I did not command or speak, nor did it come into My mind)

Jeremiah 22
8 And many nations will pass by this city; and everyone will say to his neighbor, ‘Why has the Lord done so to this great city?’ 9 Then they will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord their God, and worshiped other gods and served them.’ ”

10 Weep not for the dead, nor bemoan him;
Weep bitterly for him who goes away,
For he shall return no more,
Nor see his native country.

Oh I assure you, the population decline is FAR worse than that. The 43M population figure dates back to the very last census Ukraine ever did, all the way back in 2004. By the time the SMO began last year, it was down to below 35M, due to emigration and the loss of Crimea. Now, with the loss of the 4 Novorossiyan regions and 10M refugees fleeing the country – 2M of whom went to Russia, the rest of whom went to Europe and elsewhere – the population is barely 18M, and may be as low as 14M.

In other words, Ukraine only has about 40% more people now than neighbouring Belarus. And everything west of the Dnieper and north of Odessa/Nikolaev/Krivoy Rog is essentially poor and useless.

They are dealing with skyrocketing inflation and poverty rates throughout the country, even as their central government enriches itself with huge amounts of Western aid. Most of that help is not getting through to the ordinary people.

I disagree that God will intervene to help the Ukrainian people. My reading of the situation is: this is judgement. And it is a particularly awful kind, because of how completely insane Ukraine went with its ultranationalism, and its embrace of Western “values”.

The things the Ukrainian neo-Nazis believe in and embrace, are genuinely horrifying. This, for example, is what the OUN-B did to Poles, Russians, Romanians, Jews, Romani, and others during the Volyn Massacre:

The Polish ‘Association of Memory of Victims of Crimes of Ukrainian Nationalists’ (Stowarzyszenie Upamiętnienia Ofiar Zbrodni Ukraińskich Nacjonalistów (SUOZUN)) is engaged in reconstructing the course of events surrounding the Volyn Massacre. The materials collected by SUOZUN reveal shocking details with respect to the cruelty with which Ukrainian nationalists dealt with even babies and pregnant women. Polish researchers have uncovered 135 methods of torture and murder practiced by Ukrainian nationalists. Among them are:

Running children through with stakes
Cutting a person’s throat and pulling their tongue out through the hole
Sawing a person’s torso in half with a carpenter’s saw
Cutting open the belly of a woman in an advanced stage of pregnancy, removing the fetus, and replacing it with a live cat, before sewing up her abdomen.
Cutting open a pregnant women’s abdomen and pouring in broken glass
Nailing a small child to a door.

The people who committed these atrocities are national heroes in Ukraine.

God is punishing Ukraine, and in the process, is punishing the entire West. This is but the start.

This bad. In some ways it will be worst for the Ukrainian people than the 2 world wars and Holodomor. I not saying the deaths during this war is as big but more the demographic affects which were already a problem for Ukraine (birth rates were already low and death rates high) is made much worst.

Well only turning God the Ukrainian people can be heal.