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Endless War

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Maybe Israel/US can't beat Iran.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How long has Russia been trying to fight and losing against a small country with basically no military budget?

There is a war of attrition in which Russia is winning by most important measure of gaining vs losing territory. It has equipment superiority over Western backed Ukraine. Production capacity that is higher than the west.

The US Military industrial complex is MASSIVE. In a real conflict, it can easily pivot to more effective technologies

While massive, it is extremely wasteful, and the technology shifts it has committed to are expensive and underperforming. F35s have low reliability/flight time. Littoral ships scrapped 5 years after comissioning, refueling ships in long dry dock time. Boeing troubles is a hallmark of a US defense system that only cares about spending money instead of results/quality/value, with CEOs simply good at bribes and promises instead of caring about execution.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Ukraine is literally getting old tech that allows the west justification to pay for new tech.

Russia isn't even fighting new shit and they're digging through museums for equipment lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

LMFAO. Russia? Superior military manufacturing capability than the West??? God that's funniest thing I've read in a month. China? Absolutely true that by some measures has superior military manufacturing capability than the US, or the EU. Russia is a joke, please keep this completely detached from reality content to hexbear or whatever tankie community your main account is in.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

https://lemmy.ca/post/32720516?scrollToComments=true

That comes from Ukraine. Another UK source has the difference as 3x. Russia military production was up 40% in 2023 and 2024

This article focuses on Iran and a missile vs plane war.

Your dismissiveness seems like copium, though I understand a basis to challenge some of article's conclusions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Weird. You're saying a country actively in a war is making more bullets than a country that isn't at war at all? Wow, next you'll tell me people eating food chew 3x as much as people not eating food.

Production rate != Manufacturing capacity. Just look at Russia's production rate now vs before the war.

Damn it's unbelievable how dumb you tankies are. You think you can just say stuff without thinking for even a fraction of a second about it first.