Are you really telling me that NATO's capacity was affected by having 25% less ammunition stock in the three largest NATO countries except the USA? Is this really serious?
Not ammunition. Artillery systems. So M777, Caesar and that stuff
In fact, this is a completely comfortable situation for NATO. Sending all the rest of the weapons in stock from Europe/USA and letting Ukraine fight, this further increases the difference in power between NATO and Russia. Between yesterday and today, arrived at some port in Europe, about 200 Bradley and 100 M113 to be sent to Ukraine, all the surplus stock material stored is being sent to Ukraine, because that makes sense, after all, none NATO armor was not even touched when Russia loses hundreds for months.
Wrong, it is a totally bad situation from NATO, that is why you see that they are the side that are constantly scalating. A side that is calm about the future prospect does not need to risk escalating.
This is for many reasons.
First one is that NATO power against Russia is not increasing but totally the opposite. They are getting system destroyed that they dont even produce, while Russia is producing each year more of that system.
Second reason, NATO is a empire and need to control the financial flow as welll as natural resources of the world. It desperately need image to avoid things like huithies fucking their supply lines. If this war demonstrate something is impotence from NATO to defend their proxy, and this has repercusions in the world. Russia is not a empire, and its own power is dependent only of its national resources.
Third reason, China. All money NATO is investing in Ukraine is money that NATO should be investing in its own production capabilities. More time of this war simply means China catch with them faster. While NATO loose money and prestige in this conflict China only strengthen their economy.
I am strictly referring to military aid and yes it is possible to distinguish. EU member states had already sent around US$12 billion between the 2022-2024 period to Ukraine, while sending US$88 billion for budgetary and humanitarian aid, then approved sending a total of US$36 billion, which guarantees an EU military expenditure for Ukraine of US$48 billion, far from any estimate of US$300 billion, including US military aid which should already be approaching almost US$150 billion with the most recent approval of US$60 billion, because part of this US$175 billion from the USA, part of it was for financial and also humanitarian aid, but as I already stated, the majority of the aid is military package shipments.
No, it is not possible to distinguish. You can tell that someone says that something is humanitarian, but to believe that such difference exist is laughable.
Russia's military spending before 2022 was below 4%. Depending on the source, it can vary from 3.5% to 3.7% of GDP, this is far below the current 8.7% of GDP, yet, having spent 6% of GDP in 2023 only denotes that this argument that it did not have time to emerge any effect on the ground is unacceptable, when the difference in budgets from 2023 was an increase of 47% to 2024 (8.7%). And another, news came out today about a tax increase in Russia.
They increase the budget in 2023 with noticeable impact in stabilising the battlefield plus creating new military district in north Russia to confront Sweeden and Finland in NATO. The new increase is still to be noticed.
We will judge at the end of the year
This comment here is completely unrealistic.
No, it is absolutely realistic. It is simply facts. Russians are living now better than before 2022, real wages increased. Economy is going well for them with manufacturing increasing as well as GDP increase. And they maintain super low debt to GDP ratio.
Main reason for this is that Russians were basically exporting capital before the war, buying US or European treasuries as well as buying things outside.
This ended with sanction and commercial wars, and the result is that now even with some capital being burned in things like shells production, the amount of capital available for investment in Russian economy now is bigger that it was before.
More capital means more investment, more production, better infrastructures, better life.
On the other hand, the current expenditure of EU and US is unsustainable and that is obvious. And specifically in Europe the economy is shitty and literally any person you talk in different countries will confirm it.
You have german automakers and Tier2 suffering seriously, with ZF planning to cut 25% of ther workforce, chemical industries closing, a PMI showing hard contraction, impossible to compete with chinese products, etc.
Of course European countries have wealth accumulated, but situation is not confortable at all and its getting worse
Impossible to check? Dude, if you're following the war just based on posts in this thread, you're completely out of touch with reality.
In this thread there is no proof of nothing more than dozens of videos that can be propaganda or taking out of context. You want to believe them, ok, but they are far from being any kind of truth.
It is far more logical to trust death estimates by mediazona, that is a definitely pro western source, so you cant say that is russian propanda:
Its pretty easy to see that current casualties are by far inferior than in other moments of the war, so your statement that Chasov Yar is costing uncountable Russian men is simply non demonstrable.
It seems you who is out of reality
If they don't, why did install it now? What has changed? I'm sure it wasn't due to bad weather.
As you told, it is financed not by the Russian minister but by some volunteer association. The decided to recollect money, wisely or not, and they installed.
Nothing here proofs that is a good investment of those volunteers.
Furthermore, the article you posted did not even prove that it actually has the capability, including the SAR record at Roswell Air Center was not through hangars or any other structure, because the entire area is uncovered.
There are more articles about the same kind of algorithms, I simply copied one that is short.
