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Have you ever even seen anything for sale made in Russia other than nesting dolls? They abandon their trucks on the roadsides regardless of how old, because not worth repairing. So they are going to convert manufacturing which makes pieces of shite to making more weapons? Lots of luck with Drunkle Igor being productive and producing quality

To be fair Russian hardware has always been shite. Was the case in WW2 too, where German military hardware and quality far exceeded the Russians. Yet the Russians beat them by having more soldiers to spare and mass produced their tanks and vehicles quickly and cheaply. It didn’t matter if some broke down or were easily destroyed, they just overwhelmed with sheer numbers and enough were effective.

Ukraine has the high tech we give them. But they don’t have the soldiers and their numbers are getting thinner. The Russian people are under no threat because we won’t let ukraine use our weapons to launch an offensive into Russia so you won’t see much anti war sentiment there. At this point the Russians have the advantage by slowly draining Ukraine of their forces and will to fight. Lesser tech does not matter, they can expend their Soviet stuff at will when there’s no threat of attack on Russian soil. Now even if let Ukraine use weapons to attack Russia, it may be too late. Should have allowed it a year ago when their military was stronger and might could have pushed back harder.

The reality at this point is this can drag on and it will just delay the inevitable and cost more lives and resources, or the West will have to actually put boots on the ground if there is to be victory. Ukraine cannot “win” this on their own with only our tech and money. They just don’t have the well trained soldiers in large enough numbers to utilize it to the fullest