The amount of money the West spent on supplying Ukraine with weapons is wildly inflated. Most of the weapons being sent were headed for the scrap heap or were mothballed and practically worthless. But yes they have spent tens of billions in Ukrainian government salaries, pensions, and the like.
The War in the Ukraine
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Russia already solved water supply problem for Crimea. It has tested most of its weapons. that will give confidence in developing more effective systems. if you understand some thing about background. this conflict will continue in one form or another.
it is lack of understanding of this conflict that Ukraine-Russia are only parties. Russia has no problem in financing this conflict or finding manpower.
Just imagining their money purveyors just stop to give (lend) them funds and then Ukraine need to pay his dept that insanely just skyrocketed. It will be a total sell-out and the only thing left is acreage. We will see the rest of the country getting swallowed by the US and EU. Ukraine is really fighting for his existence but it's already too late.
Perhaps a new counter-offensive attempt by the Armed Forces of Ukraine in Kherson:
They are insanely in the open, a couple of vids that can be geolocalized and Orlan will search for them, kub and lancet drones will then scatter them... Lots of french VAB !
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They were long gone before the video got posted.
To be fair, I don't think any modern country can enlist 40% of military age males without a societal collapse aside from poor countries with huge TFRs, primarily because there's usually nothing to collapse anyway, lol. Maybe India can do that since most of their population is not doing anything anyway because their government is still going for services instead of manufacturing...Numbers of military age men a country has isn't always comparable. Countries in the 1900s had much better demographic structures than they do now.
This is Russia's current demographic structure:
Russia probably has one of the worst demographic structures in the world, there is no way they can enlist 40% of military age males without society collapsing.
Maybe it worth the teim to check the german, ukrainan an polish profile.Numbers of military age men a country has isn't always comparable. Countries in the 1900s had much better demographic structures than they do now.
This is Russia's current demographic structure:
Russia probably has one of the worst demographic structures in the world, there is no way they can enlist 40% of military age males without society collapsing.
If you think the Russian bad then how you can describe these ones ?
Back of napkin calculation. Russian GDP is 1.8 Trillion. At the beginning, the Russians were said to be spending 100 milion per day. That is 36 billion a year. With the mobilization, assuming 60K per soldier per year, just paying the additional soldiers will be additional 18 billion a year. Assuming the current spending is double the initial 100 million a day, we are talking 72 billion a year, or 4% of the Russian GDP. Most of the spending is issuing rubble to their own citizens, who in turn will spend the money on the Russian economy, I think the Russians can do this for several years and not feel that much impact.
You don't go to war as a way to boost your economy. In the case of Russia, they know that they will go through a few years of bad times economically, but they went to war for the security of Russia, to not be broken up by the West. It is worth the economic sacrifice to safeguard the future of Russia.
Because they are addicted to that bot. Just skim passed when you see that name, since it seems people randomly come off the ignore list
The money in weapons from storage is an entirely different figure.
It's the blank cheque handouts being sent to the pockets of Ukrainian corrupt officials thats being admitted to publicly and overtly that people count when talkimg about money sent.
The scrap weapons are a surplus account that can be added to the final tally.
Yes the mid term elections are close, but this kind of bificuration won't blurry it enough I think at this point, especially when prominent officials proudly proclaim how much of our tax money is being funneled to these crooks on national Television on a daily basis as if it helps the average person in some twisted messed up way. Who knows how much more is going on off the cameras
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