IIRC, Russia can only afford one aircraft carrier, and even that got towed to port on it's last deployment.
Russia is broke; they can't afford to build squat. What we have here is a textbook example of Sun Tzu's admonishment in The Art of War: "When weak, appear strong."
11 posted on 06/22/2018 5:59:33 AM PDT by Joe Brower
(Nothing is more terrifying than ignorance in action. Particulary when that ignorance is cultivated.)