The guy says:”....beef up.....”
Just curious...sanctions have crashed a fair portion of Russian economy. Just vodka production, oil, natural gas and minerals driving the economy. With significant losses on the battlefields....where’s this money going to come from to make up for this ‘beef up’ action?
A fair chunk of any money they do make....has to go to the Oligarch community as well.
Good point. This is a lot like how Reagan bankrupted the USSR. Force Russia the spend ever more on its defenses, and it will collapse.
They seem to be over-extended in trying to deal with Ukraine. Defending more than doubled potential frontiers of invasion would be a stretch. Probably the real reason they fear a wide open plain between Eastern Europe and their oil fields.
You have to ask? It comes from Xi, of course. The price, you might ask? Client state status for Moscow to occupy your existential enemy half a world away. The only limiting factor in the trillions our grandchildren will be on the hook for to counter this is how much Xi would rather have a Russian/American Cold War frontier rather than Chinese/American one. All the fault of the illegitimate junta in DC and the neocons toting their water. By the way, sanctions are doing a crippling job on the American economy, especially the non subsidized working poor. Those families are being crucified for the continued corrupt DC/Kiev oligarchy. I assume you’d be all in on embargoing Chinese pharmaceuticals if they should directly cross us.
“Just curious...sanctions have crashed a fair portion of Russian economy. Just vodka production, oil, natural gas and minerals driving the economy. With significant losses on the battlefields....where’s this money going to come from to make up for this ‘beef up’ action?”
Even without the sanctions the Russians didn’t have squat for modernizing their military.
Of the T14 Armata, they planned on having 2,300 of them by the end of 2021, they have between 20 and 32 of them. The project keeps getting pushed back further and further due to cost and complexity.
The Su-57 “stealth” fighter.... Russia was supposed to aquire 52 by the end of 2020, they currently have 15 (10 test, 5 operational). This program is also being pushed back due to costs and complexity. 6 of the original test aircraft had to be withdrawn and rebuilt due to structural cracks.
These other super weapons that Putin claimed as being operational such as the so-called “tsunami torpedo” are pure bluster, they are nothing more than paper tigers because they honestly don’t have the money to develop and build them.