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You've seen pictures of blown-up trucks. The factory that produced most of those trucks has stopped producing some (or most?) models. It "will" find Russian-mad
by Arnt 5y ago
You've seen pictures of blown-up trucks. The factory that produced most of those trucks has stopped producing some (or most?) models. It "will" find Russian-made replacements for the gearboxes, engines and whatever else, but hasn't yet.
It also "will" make gearboxes, but setting up the production line for that needs some German help. Overall, spare parts and new trucks to replace the blown-up ones seem scarce for quite a while. Your assertion that they "will figure out a way" may be true on a geological time scale, but do you think they'll figure it out this month? This year?
This sucks more for the unemployed workers than for the owner, I'm sure. But even more for the army, which needs trucks and spare parts for its invasion.
- necovek 5y agoI am not sure what you are talking about. It seems you are arguing how sanctions have made it impossible for Russian army to fix their vehicles in the short term because they need to import spare parts from sanctioning countries? I am pretty confident they have enough of them for whatever attacks they still plan to commit in Ukraine, and the only reason they are dropping their secondary objectives seems to be simply because they are realizing that that's not going to be realized (and that secondary objective seemed to have been "take Kyiv quickly and then pretend to be nice", but that has spectacularly failed, with huge losses on both side which only works against them). They are still dead serious in Eastern parts of Ukraine.