Posted on 12/13/2022 8:29:07 AM PST by JonPreston
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This an interesting source, did you build it yourself?
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The ebb and flow of a particular battle has very little to do with the strategic impacts of the war. Russia has lost roughly half of all of its tanks. This significantly reduces the ability of Russia to threaten its neighbors.
Thus, the ability for Russia to influence the adoption of BRICs vs the Dollar is greatly reduced. In fact, the losses have started to reach the point where NATO and the US are a better option for border nations to align with.
Milley’s military is in the same boat except the woke tranny’s will be running the operation.
The Federal Reserve will print money, so they and banks can buy US government debt, which Fed.gov will hand over to US arms makers, so they can manufacture expensive weapons, which will be available in 3 years.
You are missing the point. We used to stock, restock, and purge older stock of weapons in a regular and planned way. Our current military is under-equipped due to shipping our front line stock to the open sewer called ‘Ukraine’. Our weapons suppliers are not capable of backfilling what we we need at the rate we’re shipping it off to Ukraine, so, we are less lethal to defend ourselves and we lack stock for routine training. We are a weaker country.
The EU/US governments ran by deep state progressive half-wits.
Europe has significantly depleted a few categories of weapons stockpiles, but the threat those stockpiles were meant to defend against no longer exists. Russia’s situation is no better than Europe’s.
And it’s not like this is a surprise. UK and France ran out of bombs when they assumed responsibility for the air campaign in Libya just a decade ago. If you don’t have the ordinance to bomb Libya for a couple months, what the hell are you going to use against Russia? NATO’s vast aviation advantage over Russia only works if you have the ordinance to hang from the wings of those aircraft.
Only over the past couple years has Europe started increasing spending on weapons, but they still hadn’t embraced the possibility of an artillery heavy ground war. Only now are they rushing to fill that void. They should have listened to Trump. Hell, it was so obvious that even Obama warned them. Of course, even if they HAD listened, they would have invested in higher end weapons that they wouldn’t provide to Ukraine, so it wouldn’t have made much difference. They needed this wake up call.
I see this as the EU sent old equipment to Ukraine and that equipment has decimated the Russian military. The inventories can now be refreshed with new more advanced / better equipment.
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But that is not how the EU authorities phrased it.
EU (and other nations) are short on steel and have been forced to curtail some manufacturing because, as a friend in the business put it: “Some varieties of steel are becoming more difficult to find.” Smelters, rolling mills and certain alloy processes need continuous furnace operation, which is not possible when natural gas is in short supply.
Just to replace what was already sent to Ukraine will take 2-4 years to replace, according to US arms manufacturers.
Meanwhile, Russia has an energy infrastructure, plenty of raw materials and the armaments roll off the production lines as we speak. Russia has increased its military presence. It is hardly decimated.
There is, of course, how _you_ see it, but then, on the other hand, there is reality.
https://fortune.com/2022/03/22/russian-tank-manufacturer-sanctions-ukraine-war/
"There is, of course, how _you_ see it, but then, on the other hand, there is reality." .... that applies to all of us armchair generals.
IvanPresto on 12th December 2022 “Is that why Zelenskyyy’s Raiders are fleeing Bakhmut as I type?”
really? Here we are on 1st March 2023 and Bakhmut still ain’t controlled by you Russkies!
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