“That’s a turnabout from April 25, when Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin declared in Kyiv that the United States wanted to destroy Russia’s capacity to undertake wars on this scale: “We want to see Russia weakened to the degree that it can’t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading Ukraine.”
What the US missed was that the Pencil-Heads in the Pentagon who imposed “Just-in-Time” production to military hardware (as opposed to paying the cost of housing huge quantities of munitions) never assumed that their Russian counterparts (who most likely graduated from the same US business schools) would be LAUGHED OUT OF THE KREMLIN when they tried that crap there. The Russians said keeping the munitions around was harmless and could be very useful...as we now see.
So, guess which side has the munitions to go decades, and guess which side has to try to resurrect people from the dead to figure out how to produce them again? No, it’s not that hard to figure it out.
The United States and NATO, obviously. The Russians will run through all their inventory and be left with nothing to defend themselves from China or anybody else who wants to fight with them.
Meanwhile the US and European military suppliers will be getting billions of dollars to make state of the art munitions and weapons systems which Ukraine will test out on the Russian soldiers.
Have you seen how effectively cheap drones with IR sensors are at killing Russian soldiers? In a few years there will be thousands of those drones killing Russian soldiers every day. And the Russians will be trying to buy surplus electronics parts from black market suppliers since they can't even make a drone themselves.
In the mid 80’s I worked on a project where the uUSA bought bullet painting machines from France, I had to rewire them and program the Texas Instruments PLC that the Army specified , then we had to run 100,000 rounds of dummy 5.56 through the machine three times to show reliability. Then we had to prove we had the 100,000 dummy rounds and that none were in the machine. The machine painted the tips to show what type of round was being processed, and then this feed into the feeder machine for a belt linking machine, This was about time the saw was being introduced. It was then shipped to Salt Lake City. Must have worked, never heard anything about it after that.