Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar
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Sanctions are minor at best, Russia is one of the few countries in the world that can feed itself, supply its own energy needs and its own military production.
Could easily argue that the sanctions and war in general have hurt the citizens of Europe more and with a worse longer term outlook.
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With T34s maybe, but not with high technology armaments
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Really? They aren't sourcing their chips from the EU or the US, the rest of the world doesn't seem to care about the conflict.
Although there is the whole thing about them being unable to build a tractor... Russia is fully capable of building modern(ish) tanks fully domestically the only thing which would be a problem for them is semiconductors - their domestic industry can't produce anything at the scale required without spending years ramping and even then is 10+ years behind the latest stuff. They can still put together stuff like export spec T-72s though.
Most of the major semiconductor fab companies are under the US's thumb or linked to the EU - China's domestic production is still behind the bleeding edge and they wouldn't have a lot to spare for export to Russia.
EDIT: In fact Russia's most bleeding edge fab relies heavily on Western sourced parts for maintenance and production so likely they wouldn't be able to produce anything smaller than ~180nm, possibly only 350nm (which is early 90s tech) in any real quantity.
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They can't make any more large ships like the ones they lost recently, Ukraine makes the engines
Russia is a pariah and rightly soIf you like potatoes, bread and beets.
In this kind of warfare, without air superiority, tanks are just cooking pots anyway. Ukraine's use of drones has shown up old man thinking on warfare, plentiful supplies of man portable anti-armour is costing Russia dearly
No it cannot.
Russia doesn't do the microchips it needs. It also imports other sophisticated parts it needs for high end weapons.
Factory producing tanks: https://fortune.com/2022/03/22/russian-tank-manufacturer-sanctions-ukraine-war/
Factory producing anti-air and radar: https://en.defence-ua.com/news/ulya...own_production_defense_intelligence-2582.html
Are you thinking they can fall back to stamping out AKs and ww2 grade weapons without transistor electronics.
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So they can't build them domestically then?
Why I put modern(ish) - an export spec T-72 is still reasonably modern kind of though it would lose to pretty much anything in the 3rd generation tank list.
There is a difference there between run out of parts and can't do anything ever again and run out of parts and has to suspend operations until they can get replacement part production, etc. online. Russia can produce a full range of discrete electronic components and up to 90s level semiconductors domestically - in theory up to 65nm but in reality doubtful they can continue that without Western sourced parts and supplies and even the older nodes will take a lot of effort, lots of new industry and building experience, etc. to switch to fully domestic production at any scale.
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Or a milk float that launches Brimstones
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Artillery is the weapon of choice in this conflict. I know its fashionable to defend Ukraine and attack anything Russian in this thread, but the reality is Russia is very self sufficient, far more so than any EU nation.
The problem for Russia is their overreliance on Western machinery and software. Due to this uncomfortable reality their ability to produce will diminish and any attempt to circumvent or delay this will come at immense cost.
Since they've made no progress on investing in human capital and domestic industries that are more complex than resource extraction it was apparent that their country was already on a path to cascading failure. Sanctions can only accelerate this and force the Kremlin to do something they fear by investing in creating an opposition to it's authority with a more intelligent workforce.
Since they've made no progress on investing in human capital and domestic industries that are more complex than resource extraction it was apparent that their country was already on a path to cascading failure. Sanctions can only accelerate this and force the Kremlin to do something they fear by investing in creating an opposition to it's authority with a more intelligent workforce.
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There is a difference between weapon of choice and the weapon you have left.
Thousands of destroyed and almost thousands of captured russian vehicles in a very short time are evidence that actually no, artillery was not ever the weapon of choice.
It is the one that is left.
More importantly, the vehicles which have been destroyed in their thousands are the ones which have their production shut down from lack of foreign parts. This greatly undermines what you say that russia is capable of being militarily self sufficient. Artillery is neither being devastated or as difficult to replace as a front line tank.
They were literally breaking down white goods for the electronics within
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You really don’t have a clue, do you?
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What has caused the destruction of infrastructure and cities? It's all about the artillery, that isn't going away anytime soon.
None of that detracts from the fact that they are food and energy secure, the biggest casualty of the sanction war will be the working classes all across Europe this winter.
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