[Widget Jr]

Hat tip Preston Stewart's YouTube Channel community post. This is the Google translation and translated links from the Russian posted in the link, to the official Kremlin.ru webpage and Vedomosti, a Russian daily business newspaper, respectively. Over the last decade, Russia was supposed to have modernized and procured new equipment like the T-14 Aramata. That did not happen and Russia is pulling T-62s out of storage. Russia's ability to keep fighting this war is running into the reality of the actual capacity of their military production. Russia may recover, the question is can they before the war is effectively over.

[jacknhoo]

1 ruble = .016 USD

[buwaya]

Russia would have to overturn its entire social system to substantially reform. It would have to completely expunge nearly every institutional hierarchy, not just the military.

[Alas Babylon!]

Russia's ability to keep fighting this war is running into the reality of the actual capacity of their military production.

More like running into the actual perfection of their graft and corruption.

Putin might wind up killing more generals than Stalin did.

[Cen-Tejas]

..........my GUESS is about 20% of what Congress and the President appropriate for defense ends up in bribes to Congressmen and women and others while in Russia it’s probably more like half.

[sauropod]

Bkmk

[UMCRevMom@aol.com]

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU
for posting this article!

[SpaceBar]

20 trillion down the drain...

Might as well join the f****** peace corps. - Brother 'Bluto' Blutarsky

[Izzatso]

1989 is knocking.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

This is the real story of the war. There were a lot of rumors and speculation about the true state of Russian logistics/equipment for a very long time, but no real way to check it. Turns out that the worst case predictions were pretty much true.

Conscription/mobilization can't fix a lack of equipment and supplies. Might even make it worse.

[GaryCrow]

What is that? About 25 bucks?

[familyop]

Well, yeah.

War Mapper
A timelapse of the rapid Ukrainian advance to liberate Kherson city and secure the areas of Kherson Oblast north of the Dnipro river.
https://twitter.com/War_Mapper/status/1591220371994607616?s=20&t=7K5L7hZFi5PowuHXUoYObw

[familyop]

The problem for Russia is the corruption. Always has been.

[Four of Six]

Interesting article, if true but it does not pass the smell test in my opinion.

According to “jacknhoo” 1 Ruble = $.016 so the math says 22 Trillion Rubles = $352 Billion US.

Yet according to Wikipedia the entire Russian military budget for 2022-20221 was only $65.9 Billion US.

So forgive me but I doubt Russia has spent $352 Billion on a single arms production program.

[dennisw]

Ping. Looks like Russians will corrupt themselves out of business. We have similar problems with our military - defense establishment.

Proof in the pudding is Russia being forced to buy artillery shells from North Korea. Drones and missiles from Iran. Nicolai Patrushev was in Iran last week trying to reason with the ayatollahs, to sell Russia more drones and missiles

[PIF]

Change the program all he wants, but the money will still be stolen.