re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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You're looking at this short term. Their military likely won't be strengthened during this war, but in the years after its entirely possible if not the most likely outcome that the equipment they are pulling out of storage will be replaced with newly manufactured equipment. Its unlikely that a nation as large and with as many people and natural resources as Russia just withers away into a shell of itself and not rebuild its military, regardless of the result of the Ukraine War.

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Russia faces a number of issues. They’re cut off from trading with the “west” for the next 5+ years, minimum, likely the next 10+ years.

They’re proving their equipment is junk compared to old NATO kit, so they’re losing billions of future contracts on weapons.

They’ve lost 1m+ educated young people. The engine of their future bailed.

And they’ve done that … to gain more coal and oil. They already had a lot of both.

It’ll be 10+ years before they can get their act together. They’ll fall further behind in that timeframe. And that’s just some of it, not factoring in demographics, etc.

In short: stupid move to invade.