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Originally Posted by Skybird

^ I am not surprised one bit.

Havent some people said that Russia would be incapable to do this ^ ?

If Western production sleeps on, we will have serious, very, very serious problems for which there will be no remedy: because when they become obvious to even the blindest man in the room, we will no longer have a precious resource: time.

Si vis pacem para bellum. As long as there is still time left. You hear that, you deaf, blind, dumb Europe?

Note that the Russian Ruble buys so much more commodities in Russia and so much more factory labour in Russia than the dollar or Euro buys in Western contexts. Dont get fooled by their "small" defence budget", you have to scale it to its economic context. And then all of a sudden it is very HUGE.


Even if they reactivated many old tanks this year, accounting for the high numbers this year, they nevertheless have massively boosted the prodfuciton of brandnew tanks, namely T-90 which is now given a priority, and the upgraded T-80BVM. These teeth will be felt by Ukraine next year and thereafter, since Russia boosts its production capacity even further.

Russia release cherry-picked and fabricated data releases spewed out by the increasingly unreliable Kremlin agencies, falsely certifying Putin’s fable of triumph. There is no shortage of reasons why this factory releases should be treated as dubious when not verified against cross-channel checks and alternative benchmarks. Russia has a long history of manipulating official statistics to please its leaders, “bending over backward to correct bad numbers and burying unflattering statistics” under the pressure the Kremlin has exerted to corrupt statistical integrity. If they come to this 2000 bet you they will attack in column easy targets for Ukraine or end up in their own minefields (local commanders do not know where their own mines lay because the mine laying units are gone elsewhere not leaving location of minefields) if they can survive this they run into Ukraine defence lines good luck to them.