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To: Gene Eric

Sure. A tank factory responsible for 75% of global tank production BEFORE the war has doubled the workforce and works in three shifts.
In airspace the people say they weren’t as busy since mid-1980s.


15 posted on 01/31/2023 11:43:36 PM PST by NorseViking
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It is commentary like this that justifies wondering how the media could declare victory if there were a Ukraine coup and a military government friendly to Moscow installed.

I have no doubt at all that such a scenario would be called Magnificent Victory and total defeat of Russia. The justification would be Russian troops withdrawing. That would be how the pretense could sell.

All of the intelligence igents from the CIA and MI6 in Kiev would be executed, all applications to Nato withdrawn, all applications to the EU withdrawn, and an application to the SCO forwarded, but there is no doubt whatsoever that the Western media would declare this victory over the evil Putin.

I confess that I wondered for some time how the West could endure defeat, and because I could not see any way that could happen I have been somewhat convinced that the default result would yield NATO troops on the ground. They could not accept defeat and they would go all in. But I no longer think that. The reason being that the media could manufacture a victory where there is none. They could hang their hats on the withdrawal of troops and pretend that the new government was one they could work with.

Hell, even with all of the new Russian territories intact and using rubles for day-to-day activity, the mainstream media could manufacture a victory out of all of this, and because of that the West could endure essentially nothing.


16 posted on 01/31/2023 11:58:44 PM PST by Owen
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To: NorseViking

The tank factory with a very low rate of production only had such a global position because global production AT THAT TIME was near-zero. Since tank production in recent years depends on highly intermittent orders you will get anomalies like this.

I suggest that you should check in with the Koreans in a couple of months.


21 posted on 02/01/2023 1:34:24 AM PST by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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