#Russia is now at peak #military-industrial capacity, practically zero unemployment, pay hikes because not enough labour force to man the weapons factories. 35% of government spending go to military. 7.1% of GDP. All of it to go up in smoke in #Ukraine
However, if we look at the numbers, this output only matches current EU military spending. Countries which are on avg spending less than 2% on it currently.
Tell me again how Ukraine supported only by Europe can’t possibly win?
@gimulnautti lack of manpower, lack of ammunition. Recent conscription failed, and NATO lands productive capacity on weapons is nowhere near russia's. It takes huge investments and years, to increase sufficiently.
@fnord99 There there my little #vatnik, RU has a history of failing economically when it puts all it’s efforts on weapon production, and that can happen now.
It’s not false RU currently has headway in production, but their military gains even with 5 times advantage have been meager.
The west needs to help Ukraine weather the storm of this summer & winter and keep ramping up production.
Europe does not want an imperial Russia. We will fight it, with or without you.
@fnord99 Eventually, Russia’s economy will not be able to compete. It’s just too badly managed and too corrupt. For the coming 18 months though, it will likely be stable.
So if that’s too long for you and you’d rather be afraid of big bad russia, go ahead, keep licking boots there. Your choice.
My sources for the 18 months are credible as economists working for major banks.
Also I live next door to Russia, whereas you have the tone of approaching the war in Ukraine as if it was some internal US politics issue, confident that you know more about it than the whole of eastern Europe does.
Russia is working the ropes all the time. And they don’t need propaganda to win.
All they seem need is: ”it’ll cost too much” to win US hearts & minds.
The one's saying it will cost too much, are just repeating Kremlin disinformation.
EU countries and the US are more than happy to make money by churning out weapons. Russia is not known for great manufacturing power - they make their money from shipping energy and raw materials, not finished complex goods
@stevehayes The most significant bottleneck has been 155mm cannon shells and anti-aircraft missile supplies.
Ukraine has been outgunned 5-to-1 where as by manpower it is outnumbered perhaps a little less than 2-to-1. Ukraine has been expanding the drafting age also
With that in mind, it would be wrong to say that in this case it is "as much", or at least has been
Of course, in the long run EU/NATO shouldo be looking into sending at least training facilities & air support. France good on that
@stevehayes But the rhetoric is changing. Not wanting to get involved is losing ground.
An increasing number of people are wrapping their heads around the problem of letting Russia have even the slightest victory, and what it means for the future security of Europe.
Putin clearly has lost his marbles and there is no hope in unconvincing him he's the emperor and pope of fourth Rome.
@anttipeltola Yes it’s easy for an autocratic country that keeps most of the population poor enough to not be able to afford indoor toilets to do that.
It’s especially easy for countries like that to ramp up production quickly, much faster than market economies of welfare states.
This is not news. This is basic knowledge of facts.
Also. Basic knowledge of history shows that autocratic states eventually lose to the higher industrial output of market economies once they catch up.
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