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Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed for its shells all by itself, all thanks to its huge territory and the accompanying
by paganel 3y ago
Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed for its shells all by itself, all thanks to its huge territory and the accompanying huge natural resources. It's one of the very few countries that can accomplish that, I think only the US can compete against them in that domain, i.e. becoming 100% autarchic in case of total war.
- BlueTemplar 3y agoI mean, China, EU's common market, heck, even just pre-war Ukraine would not be far behind for that.
- alephnerd 3y agoJust about every single trillion dollar economies can become autarkic if needed. There are 19 1T+ economies and 3 more on the way in the next 2-3 years (Switzerland, Poland, Taiwan).
- paganel 3y agoMoney in the bank doesn’t produce grain out of nothing, you need land for it. The same goes for natural resources. Or maybe we’re thinking about autarchy differently.
- paganel 3y agoPush come to stove, China doesn’t have the agricultural fields needed to feed its people for 3-4 years or more in case of a future sea blockade. Europe doesn’t have the natural resources, neither the grain (if we were to exclude the fields of Southern Ukraine).
- lostlogin 3y ago> Russia can easily produce all of the steel and all of the explosives needed Russia might be able to produce a lot of steel, but it is struggling to produce military grade, hard steel. Half way down this article: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179504/-Ukraine-Update-Russia-doesn-t-have-a-backup-plan-when-it-runs-out-of-artillery https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/7/6/2179504/-Ukraine-U...
- bluGill 3y agoMore importantly Russia is unable to produce the electronics needed for modern weapons. They can build WWI level stuff well, and even WWII level stuff in many cases, but 2020s level technology is much better in many ways and there Russia struggles.
- paganel 3y agoThis has been mostly a WW1 war, the West thinking that the next big war would bec a technologically-advanced one where they’d be able to have the edge thanks to its better tech is a big factor behind the current clusterfuck represented by the West’s involvement in Ukraine. The Ukrainians would have been way better off had the West been capable to send millions of artillery shells their way instead of more advanced HIMARSes and what have you.