re: Latest Updates: Russia-Ukraine Conflict

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Germany could not out produce the Soviets in material or manpower and the rest is history.

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part of the issue was Germany made tanks one by one, handfitting parts like a Rolls Royce. Russia used Henry Ford methods of assembly line mass production. Also consider that every German offense stopped when it ran out of enough fuel to maneuver. Rommel could well have taken Egypt crossed the Suez and marched up to take oilfields in the Middle East (Syria) then the oilfields in Iran if he had enough fuel. So he was actually stopped before Montgomery assumed command in North Africa.

Russia was once a manufacturing powerhouse but it has lost all of that and is dependent on imports to have the tooling necessary to build anything. It has been dependent on the West and now is dependent on China for technology even to keep its Western built refineries and chemical plants operating.