re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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This is exactly what that guy a couple weeks ago was saying that you accused of being short sighted.

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How are they strengthening their military? Russia has lost over 3000 tanks in this war. Those were T90s, T80s, and modernized T72s which were its most advanced tanks. Those tanks are being replaced by unmodernized T72s, T62s, and T55s pulled from storage. Same thing applies to its helicopters, planes, APCs, and the quality of the training of its troops. Russia’s military economy might be expanding but they are replacing licensed western technology like the fire control system on their tanks with cold war era technology.


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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