Fun fact: Do you know what the ratio is of money Russia’s spent on the war, as compared with Ukraine plus allies?
It’s about 2 to 1. When you factor in PPP, that means in real material terms it is somewhere in the neighborhood of ten to one. Russia has mobilized basically the entirety of its economy to try to win this thing, about half their federal budget every year now. While Ukraine is surviving on occasional drips of Western aid whenever their governments can get roused from their campaign-contribution-induced torpor of corruption to be reminded that there are actual real things happening in the world.
Basically, it is a war of Russian money, Western technology / intelligence support, and Ukrainian blood. Also Ukrainian ingenuity. Necessity being the mother of invention, Ukraine is probably at the forefront of the world at this point in being able to fight a modern war (meaning a drone war) and produce and strategize based on what’s needed for one (meaning drones).
There’s also the significant factor that without Western restrictions being put on Ukraine, stopping them from fighting back in several meaningful ways even to this day, they would have mopped the floor with Russia and been bombing strategic centers deep over the border for years now. Their invasion of Kursk and Belgorod isn’t even the main thing, it is being able to blow up strategic centers inside Russia’s borders.
Having fought a country one-twentieth their size, outspending them ten to one, Russia has managed to get stuck on the border for longer than the US’s involvement in World War 2 with Ukraine fighting with one hand tied behind its back.
Think on that for a minute. It is a wonder. There are reasons, of course, mostly having to do with the inherent unfeasibility of a gangster-capitalist state to operate with any significant level of success against actual real challenges. We’re about to become very familiar with that, in the US, I am sad to say.
But not once from the US invading Iraq/Afghanistan. Or England’s occupation of Ireland. Or the Israeli presence in Palestine.
Yeah I never heard any of those things. It’s a wonder. You can look the length and breadth of American political thought, and never find even a single person who thought the Iraq War or the Israeli occupation was anything bad. You would think there would be some kind of dissenting voices somewhere to be found. Hell, you can’t even talk about such things on Lemmy, you’ll be banned for it.
Fun fact: Do you know what the ratio is of money Russia’s spent on the war, as compared with Ukraine plus allies?
It’s about 2 to 1. When you factor in PPP, that means in real material terms it is somewhere in the neighborhood of ten to one. Russia has mobilized basically the entirety of its economy to try to win this thing, about half their federal budget every year now. While Ukraine is surviving on occasional drips of Western aid whenever their governments can get roused from their campaign-contribution-induced torpor of corruption to be reminded that there are actual real things happening in the world.
Basically, it is a war of Russian money, Western technology / intelligence support, and Ukrainian blood. Also Ukrainian ingenuity. Necessity being the mother of invention, Ukraine is probably at the forefront of the world at this point in being able to fight a modern war (meaning a drone war) and produce and strategize based on what’s needed for one (meaning drones).
There’s also the significant factor that without Western restrictions being put on Ukraine, stopping them from fighting back in several meaningful ways even to this day, they would have mopped the floor with Russia and been bombing strategic centers deep over the border for years now. Their invasion of Kursk and Belgorod isn’t even the main thing, it is being able to blow up strategic centers inside Russia’s borders.
Having fought a country one-twentieth their size, outspending them ten to one, Russia has managed to get stuck on the border for longer than the US’s involvement in World War 2 with Ukraine fighting with one hand tied behind its back.
Think on that for a minute. It is a wonder. There are reasons, of course, mostly having to do with the inherent unfeasibility of a gangster-capitalist state to operate with any significant level of success against actual real challenges. We’re about to become very familiar with that, in the US, I am sad to say.
Yeah I never heard any of those things. It’s a wonder. You can look the length and breadth of American political thought, and never find even a single person who thought the Iraq War or the Israeli occupation was anything bad. You would think there would be some kind of dissenting voices somewhere to be found. Hell, you can’t even talk about such things on Lemmy, you’ll be banned for it.
If we’ve had as much money and weapons as russian apologists believe, we’d already be rewriting our constitution to include Kursk and Belgorod regions