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To: NorseViking; alexander_busek

The other thing the sanctions have done is to implement cutoffs from various dependencies on the West that Putin wanted to do but thought would be too unpopular.


25 posted on 11/17/2023 2:09:50 AM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

One thing they seem to overlook is that apart from the aircraft sector, Russian industry is currently at the Soviet level of arms production and vastly ahead of the entirety of NATO. And the way the economy works it doesn’t eat into the civilian sector as much as the Soviet MIC did.


26 posted on 11/17/2023 2:12:41 AM PST by NorseViking
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