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The guy running Covert Cabal is an utter imbecile. The vehicles they count often end up being vehicles supplied to Ukraine by western countries like Poland who had large stockpiles of Soviet vehicles. These whole "open source intelligence" channels have been long discredited, and it's incredible that there are people gullible enough to take them seriously. Again, read what actual people with a clue have to say if you want to understand what's happeing https://rusi.org/explore-our-research/publications/commentary/attritional-art-war-lessons-russian-war-ukraine
Of course, we both know that you won't and you'll just continue living in your fantasy lala land until you're forced to grapple with reality. That will happen very shortly. Buckle up.
From your article:
"As conflict drags on, the war is won by economies, not armies."
Making my case for me. Thanks.
sure kiddo https://www.cnbc.com/2024/04/17/russia-forecast-to-grow-faster-than-advanced-economies-in-2024-imf.html
Yeah well if you build a lot of stuff and blow it up, you will have high GDP growth. But everything you built is sitting as scrap in another country. So it's not helping you much.They won't get anywhere near that of the rest of Europe though. And if they ever stop waging war their GDP will crater and they will have a massive economic collapse.
Military industry is like 7% of Russian GDP, but do go on. You're like a poster child for the Dunning-Kruger effect.
I thought this was self explanatory but I guess I need to explain it. $2 trillion times .07=$140 billion, whereas $20 trillion * .02=$400 billion. Some european countries are already at 3% or higher, some plan to get there. They haven't burned through their whole stockpiles like Russia has, and they have 1 million soldiers waiting in addition to the 800k that Ukraine has already.
If Europe can muster even half the resolve that Russia has, they will win for sure. Even at a quarter or less they have a good chance, because Ukraine is already holding the line and their economy is still 10x that of Russia. Russia's not going to grow their economy by 10x.
I love how you just keep repeating that Russia burnt through their stockpiles as if it's going to make it true. This is basically all you've done in this thread. You just keep repeating the same nonsense over and over like a broken record. You have absolutely no clue regarding the subject you're attempting to debate, and you're unable to engage with the discussion meaningfully. What you're doing is just creating noise here. You can continue believe whatever wild fantasies you want, but that's not going to change the material reality of the situation.
You've produced no evidence to the contrary. Covert Cabal has done the counting. You say it's nonsense but have nothing to counter it with.
I did, but it's clear that you don't care about evidence. Go listen to some more propaganda over at Covert Cabal to make yourself feel better. 🤣