Russia Can't Afford To Buy Its New Super Weapons

Foxtrot Alpha ^ | 7/17/15 | Tyler Rogoway

[Amagi]

You mean the Russkis haven’t learned to fake it like The Great Obozo does when he redistributes wealth (while pocketing some to make himself now filthy rich) to the Obama electorate, illegal aliens, and other chosen winners, etc., the wealth that otherwise does not exist because the US government treasury is in a deep hole of debt and near collapse?

[C19fan]

So much for the quantity has its own quality Red Army mantra.

[bert]

Perhaps the writers assumptions are wrong.

Russia is not designing and producing new weapons to use. The new weapons are designed and produced to sell.

Russia has no export products worth a damn except weapons. Weapons are russia’s manufacturing strong suit. Therefore, the new stuff is for customers.

[pa_dweller]

They take a lot of pictures.

Russian shuttle

[Krosan]

But will they really? All that Iranian oil entering market next year should bring the oil price down and Russia is a petrostate.

[Cossak]

Oil export consists 18% of total Russian export. Main Russia’s woe is liberal government implementing orders of IMF and Washington.

[Krosan]

You have gotten wrong info from somewhere. This chart shows the structure of what Russia exports from 2013.

http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore/tree_map/export/rus/all/show/2013/