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> Russia would want its breadbasket back and an invasion would happen. In 2019, Russia produced almost 3 times as much wheat as Ukraine. The invasion was launc

• khochesh_kushat 4y ago
  Russia is 28 times larger than Ukraine. They certainly want to benefit from the resources in Ukraine that they're trying to annex (although I'll admit it certainly doesn't look like they are ever going to achieve their goals and benefit from actually conquering the country as they planned, if that's what you meant.)
  • unmole 4y ago
    The only resource that Russia is running out of is people.
    • matty22 4y ago
      Russia lost something like 27 million dead in WWII. The most recent figure I can find for this war (from November) is 100,000 dead. Russia has plenty of people remaining they can throw into the meat grinder.
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• ptnxlo 4y ago
  > ... let's not pretend Russia in anyways benefited from this. I hope you're not using only the wheat production of a country to formulate your answer on this.
• Zigurd 4y ago
  Russian wheat production is large-scale, but horribly inefficient. This was launched, in part, as a "resource war."