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Sure. Odds of them being properly stored, and not looted for vodka money, are much higher than has been the case for most Russian stored war machines. What's your point with this?

Let's see how things are going... Today's losses, Russia suffering roughly 7:1 disparity in losses. The artillery spam is not 'winning.' It's letting them trade blood for soil at prohibitive rates. At the current pace, they'll push to the Dniepro in what, 20 years, after tens of millions of...

No, that's not 'Just In Time' philosophy, that's how industry in general is run. There are some specific exceptions, but if a product is no longer on order, that's usually because it's obsolete, it was a fad that people don't want anymore, or you're going to be retooling your factory for...

China can produce low and mid-quality chips. They have no capability to produce at the high end, which is almost entirely Taiwan and the USA. The US is entirely capable of making anything China does when it comes to microchip fabrication. The problem isn't a lack of capability, the problem is...

Yes, and Russia can't get western chips, optics, or other subcomponents for their military industry. Who do you think is going to have an easier time getting replacements, seven out of the ten largest economies in the world, including the technology and agricultural world leader, or Russia...

Planefag literally linked new shell production facilities being built further up the page. The US doesn't need to up tank production. There are thousands of Abrams hulls in storage, and as has been pointed out multiple times, improvements in tank performance these days generally come from the...

Not 5% of GDP, 5% of war-fighting potential. During WWII, depending on what numbers you use, the US GDP was roughly 43% directed towards the war effort. If we take that as a benchmark for 'fully militarized economy,' then the actual percentage of GDP you need to hit 5% of that, is 2.06%. NATO...

None of those nations need to do so; the economy of the USA alone, is about fifteen times the size of Russia's. Let's take a hypothetical. US/NATO/allied states shift their economies to a five percent wartime footing. Taking data from here: List of countries by GDP (nominal) - Wikipedia This...

Overall GDP strongly correlates to potential war-making capacity. Israel, for fairly obvious reasons, has strong incentive to tap that potential for war-making capacity, and so it does. Ireland does not, so it doesn't. When you mobilize for war, your priorities drastically change from a...

The fact that you're arguing about raw tonnage of steel as a more important element to war-making capability than gross GDP does not say good things about your understanding of defense economics. To be fair to you, how much steel a nation produces is certainly relevant, but it also matters far...

Why do you think it's impossible for Russia to actually be defeated?

As I've said before, I can understand the people who just don't want to be involved. I think they're making a strategic error, but I at least understand the thinking. The people who insist that Russia is in the right in this conflict, or that Russia has gotten stronger through this war, or...

If you're so confident about these issues, you surely have the figures and industrial reports handy that made you so confident in these figures, right? Just show your notes, that'll make your argument quite well.

Thanks, guys.

It's comments like this that show you're not actually holding a rational position, you've invested into something to the point where you're just having knee-jerk reactions of 'this position good, that position bad.' The Russian economy is smaller than each of these economies among the US's...

Isn't it just? And it looks like we'll have many more years of such witty reparte!

No it wasn't. 2001 was plain and simple punishment. You hit us, we're going to hit you back, and harder. 2003 was a lot of things, but it wasn't about weakness/not weakness. The Iraqi military was already scared shitless of us because of 1991, and at least one unit tried to surrender before...

This is one of the things I really don't get about the Russiaboos and vatniks on here. I could respect a 'I don't really trust any sources from either side' position. I think it's going too far in skepticism; there's enough data out there to come to some conclusions, but I can at least see the...

Who knows how many hours of maintenance work were required to get it functional? It might have been just a couple. It might have been dozens or hundreds.

How?