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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
It's a city of 3 million people, not a medieval castle. Waiting to starve them out doesn't seem feasible. Especially when every day costs 20 billion dollars.
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That cost estimate I think is very questionable. That's several times Russia's GDP/day, even for Nazi Germany the percentage of GDP dedicated to fighting and armaments was only about 60%. The 2003 Iraq War was something like $2B/day for a larger force during the battle phase.