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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
You need money to run any military. They may certainly have a lot of toys, but how long can they keep gas in the tanks, bullets in the rifles and food in the stomachs? All of that costs money.
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With the oil price going down, it's going to leave alot of countries that relied on the high prices short of foriegn currency. Russia, Iran and so on have got use to large inflow of money to send on domestic issues.
Russia will find it hard to increase funding for the military if the price stays this low or keeps going down (maybe one of the reasons why they are pushing for more money from India for the carrier?).
Iran will have problems domesticly as money starts to run short to keep alot of the programs going that keep people happy and employed. The fact that 2/3 of the population is below 30 means that there is a ticking time bomb waiting to go off if not handled well.