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It is an open question as to precisely how many children Vladimir Putin actually has, but if it was up to him, no doubt he would impregnate every last comely young devotchka in the country. Back in 2014, one ultra-loyalist pro-Putin lawmaker proposed sending out free sperm samples of the Russian President’s “genetic material” to any person with a womb who wanted one, to create an entire army of mini-Vlads utterly “devoted to the homeland.” These offspring would be supported throughout infancy by “special allowances” from the Kremlin, before growing up to staff the entire governmental and military apparatus.

If it’s going to have any true repopulating effect, Putin’s sperm is going to have to be spread pretty thin, though. Russia is in the middle of a demographic winter every bit as severe as that of the West. New corpses now outnumber new babies in Russia by 600,000 a year, with birth-rates at a 200-year low; the military meat-grinder in Ukraine hardly helps matters, not to mention all those people who keep on mysteriously falling out of windows.

Putin’s latest proposed solution is to send any biologically capable childless women (but never any childless men) to see a psychiatrist until they finally agree to begin to “form a positive attitude towards having children.” In 2024, Putin signed a law making it illegal to promote the idea there could be anything positive about having no offspring, such “child-free ideology” being a harmful foreign import from the godless West. Last year, he praised the “very good tradition” of Muslims breaking the law in the semi-autonomous province of Chechnya by marrying fourteen-year-old girls off to adult men, as being “truly the right thing to do.” British social services think precisely the same thing in Bradford right now, so I hear.

Russian Towards Extinction

An earlier attempt at solving Russia’s population crisis which was slightly less reliant upon the mass importation of Muslim pedophiles occurred during the mid-2010s, when a series of hoax videos were spread in which a lone Muscovite experimenter sat at his kitchen table hoping to create a homunculus, an artificial tiny living man, grown in an equally artificial womb-substitute, known of from ancient legends about alchemy. The hoaxer got hold of an ordinary chicken’s egg, injected what he said was his own sperm (or maybe his President’s) into it via syringe, then left it to incubate and grow in a dark cupboard, before eventually the baby hatched. Regrettably, the infant turned out to be a mutant, ungratefully spitting acid at its shocked father, who promptly reacted by squashing it to death with a nearby hardback book.

Homunculi aren’t real, but that doesn’t mean a less supernatural modern variant of the legend may not come true in the future in the form of something called “ectogenesis,” or the growth of genuine human fetuses in artificial, technologically-made wombs. Russian state media is currently pushing a fake propaganda meme to the effect that Ukraine, suffering terrible losses on the battlefield, has recently legalized ectogenesis, with the presumable aim of siring an entirely new unnatural clone-army to fight back against Moscow with. If so, President Zelensky would have to be expecting the war to drag on for quite some time; ectogenesis babies don’t just pop out fully-grown, but as ordinary, non-military-capable newborns.

The more mundane truth about ectogenesis in Ukraine is simply that the government has considered potentially legislating to allow the technique’s experimental use to help premature infants. Born too early to survive, babies can’t easily just be shoved back up inside their mothers by midwives, but the possibility of sealing premature fetuses into fake substitute-wombs until developed properly is deemed one worth exploring, as Ukraine seeks to boost its plummeting population by any means possible.

Yet whilst Putinista propaganda about Ukraine being a deviant nation of wannabe alchemists is hugely exaggerated, like all the best myths, it is not based upon absolutely nothing whatsoever. Suffering long-term disastrous demographic decline even before war with Russia, Ukraine had already become a world-leading center of fertility clinics and surrogate wombs-for-hire, so much so that Russian troops actually made a point of destroying frozen embryos and sperm as part of their war-effort to wipe out the future viability of the Ukrainians as a feasibly separate people.

The Kiev-based IVF clinic BioTexCom is one of the largest sperm repositories in the world. BioTexCom was also a world-leading center for ectogenesis experiments, with its owner, Albert Tochilovsky, giving an interview in 2019, before war interrupted his business, predicting the following:

I think that we will acquire ectogenesis within 5-7 years, and our clinic keeps working in this direction … Most likely, ectogenesis will be allowed in … America and Great Britain. The problem of urbanization is pressing there, while only 2% of the population is involved in agriculture. This is a highly developed society, where women build their careers before they reach the age of 40-45, after that they want to have children [by which time they are often infertile]. Nowadays, immigrants help to solve this issue. I believe, in future, this problem will be solved through the use of ectogenesis and mitochondrial replacement.

Tochilovsky’s words are most interesting, as they suggest that the process of ectogenesis may one day provide demographically declining Western states like the US and UK with a potential solution to their current population woes. Might “mitochondrial replacement” be the best way available to combat the Great Replacement? One day, maybe. But only if those in charge of the technology can be persuaded to actually allow it.

Mother Of Invention

The general scientific consensus is that ectogenesis will become medical reality at some point over the coming decades, albeit precise estimates of when inevitably vary. As such, slightly more plausible ectogenesis-related hoaxes than the aforementioned have begun to spread online. One occurred last year, in which an apparently non-existent scientist from a Chinese university, Dr Zhang Qifeng, had supposedly designed a humanoid “surrogacy robot” which male users could impregnate, before being able to observe their consequent little homunculus growing to fruition in an oversized goldfish bowl welded onto the metallic mother’s stomach and filled with amniotic fluid, all for as little as $14,000. Major worldwide news outlets, like Britain’s Daily Mail, fell for the hoax, reporting the total non-story as fact.

The womb-bot did not exist, but it is easy to see why the pranksters located its birthplace as China; being an autocratic totalitarian dictatorship, the central planning of national birth-rates via robotic assembly-line methods is precisely the kind of thing the Chinese Communist Party might be expected to do, and precisely the kind of thing a more squeamish liberal Western democracy (so-called) might be expected to shy away from. Be that as it may, if a Chinese-type regime did develop viable ectogenesis production-lines, Western countries would surely be forced into following suit, or else face certain outmatching in both economic and military manpower.

The question is: what would the lab-babies born via such means in today’s West actually look like? In China, the answer is obvious: miniature yellow Chinamen, the new terracotta warriors. In the United States or Great Britain, the answer is less obvious. Like Hulk Hogan or Mike Tyson?

Womb For Maneuver

Initially, ectogenesis is generally imagined as a tool for individual couples so that, for example, a busy mother can be liberated from the bother of gestating her child inside her own body personally, leaving her free to pursue her fulfilling day-to-day career in data-entry entirely unhindered. Made of her eggs and her husband’s sperm injected into a big plastic baby-sack, it will naturally come out looking like them. Once the state gets involved in churning out babies en masse, though, decisions will have to be made about precisely what kind of kids are manufactured. . . including what their race and skin-color (and the internal characteristics for which skin-color is a proxy marker) will be.

Fifty or sixty years ago, the answer would have been obvious, right across Europe, Australasia and North America: white babies, please! Today, the answer is rather less clear. Would there have to be some kind of racial quota system, like there is for everything else now? If so, what would it be? Would the relative percentages of each race in any given nation at the point of ectogenesis’ adoption be set in stone by the technology forever? Or would some halfway house compromise be reached, whereby everyone came out in a mixed-race shade between all the other unmixed possibilities, like a human Caramac bar, molded in a factory owned by Count Coudenhove-Kalergi?

More likely, given the heated racial politics of our times, there would be some almighty fight over whether to abolish the white race altogether in expatiation for past alleged “sins” by making all the babies black or brown, or, contrariwise, to expunge the Great Replacement from history by making them all white again, like they used to be. There would be no need to import cheap labor from abroad anymore in a society where workers could be simply be grown in a lab, so any of the options above could become a possibility all of a sudden; maybe some weird transhumanist lobby would even push to get kids dropping out in an assortment of utterly artificial colors, bright blue like Smurfs, or orange like Oompa-Loompas.

This may all sound like a bizarre thing to be wasting time thinking about right now but, should mass, state-generated ectogenesis genuinely come to pass one day, then a decision about what race the babies should be will inevitably have to be made. It is literally inescapable. Alternatively, each baby’s race could be randomly generated somehow, but even the decision to do that will by definition be a political one in the first place.

Races other than the white one are already considering all this. You can find academic papers written for Muslims with titles like “Science and Islamic Ethics: Navigating Artificial Womb Technology Through Quranic Principles” and ones written for blacks with titles like “Violent Legacies, New Threats: Protecting Black Motherhood in the Age of Artificial Womb Technology” appearing in academic journals right now. Here’s the abstract for the latter:

Ectogestation, also known as Artificial Womb Technology (AWT), is a revolutionary reproductive technology that is poised to be one of the greatest innovations of our time. However, like most novel technologies, the potential for egregious harm cannot be ignored. In the United States, a country plagued by racist, heteronormative, capitalistic ideology, ectogestation presents a gateway for the severance of parental rights for Black and marginalized pregnant people … We offer recommendations for pre-emptive action to prohibit the misuse of ectogestation [against black interests] should it become available in the future.

Where are such papers’ white equivalents, laying the academic, technical, philosophical, medical, moral and legal framework for artificial wombs to be used to ensure the future continuation of our own race? Nowhere, as far as I can see. If some well-meaning white scientist or ethicist submitted a paper like that to a reputable Western journal today, it would be rejected as the debased ravings of a “Nazi eugenicist” faster than you could say “Lebensborn convent”!

But, if people from other races are going to start planning the industrial-scale use of ectogenesis for their own ends—and they surely are, although the baby-steps made in the black and Muslim papers cited above go nowhere near this stage yet, thankfully—then white people would be wise to get in on the act themselves too, before it’s all too late. Calls are already being made to re-legislate abortion rights around this issue; it’s time to get our own plans into gestation too.