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Originally Posted by curves2000
Sobering look at the Russian military industrial complex and it's production which appears to be shocking even veteran experts.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...n-war-planners
Pretty much a mandate to run 12 hour shifts, twice a day for a lot of companies to turn out what is needed in order to win the war.
While the west, NATO and EU dither on assistance, stuck in the mud so to speak, Russia is ramping up and in a big way.
Scary to think that they can produce this while other countries can barely deliver the crumbs. In Putin's interview with Tucker Carlson he indicated that if the west stopped arming Ukraine, it would be over in a few weeks and that may actually be the case if things don't improve.
Godspeed to the Ukrainian Defenders |
The article states that military spending in Russia is no 7.5% of GDP, but the Estonian president said recently that Russia is planning to ramp it up to 40% based on their intelligence reports.
For context, at the height of WW2, the USSR was at 62% of GDP on military spending. During the Cold War, they varied between 10-20% depending on the year. Poland spends the most money on the military of all NATO countries relative to GDP (3.9 % of GDP), and the average in NATO is ~2.7%.