Ukraine Invasion - Please do not post videos showing attacks/similar

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Grim5 said:
In other news Canada says it plans to send its stockpile of 80 thousand unguided CRV7 rockets to Ukraine, Ukraine can use from helicopters etc. however of the 80 thousand stockpile, Canada estimates only 10% are fully functional and ready for combat but will send all in case the Ukrainians want to repair them or use them as spare parts for other things
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One of the reasons I'm not very optimistic in the other thread, people laugh at Russia's rusted out stockpiles but we aren't exactly at an ideal state of readiness either.
 
Calpol said:
They are already apparently spending up to 40% GDP on the war which is crazy. I say full your boots Vlad. It's unlikely they can spend their way to a material increase on what we have seen from Russia so far and whilst sanctions haven't crippled the general economy I suspect the the technology required for modern weaponry is difficult to procure in volume.

He's eating away at the reserves and may only have another 10 months before they are exhausted. I'm optimistic still that Ukraine can continue to inflict strategic losses on the enemy. The aircraft could be a significant moment for Ukraine and they aren't far away.
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It's not 40% of GDP but 40% of the annual budget. The Russian budget is about $340b vs GDP of about $1.7t. Still though it's 8% of GDP which is huge, UK spends only 2.5%ish and most western EU countries spend less then that.
 
The senate votes on $61 billion military aid for Ukraine next week but then it still has to go to the house for the next vote and the house is going on break after next week

Some countries have passed multi year legislation in their governments, such as Germany which has passed legislation giving Ukraine funding across multiple years. I wonder if Biden could have done the same last year - for example passing $150 billion spread across 3 years or something, cause what they're doing now is trying to vote on $60 billion every year.


The funding from Russian aid is progressing. Hopefully before the end of the year Russias assets will have been repurposed as a Ukrainian fund. The most popular idea so far is to pool Russias assets and then transfer $15 billion to Ukraine per year for the next 30 years. The funding will need to be used for rebuilding the country, so I would guess that once the war is over Ukraine would actually borrow lots of money and then pay the loans back with Russias assets.
 
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I'd say I don't understand how these problems keep happening, but one of my brothers worked briefly for one of the companies involved and left because it was a shambles of incompetence with loads of people having zero interest in the job they were doing.
 
Rroff said:
I'd say I don't understand how these problems keep happening, but one of my brothers worked briefly for one of the companies involved and left because it was a shambles of incompetence with loads of people having zero interest in the job they were doing.
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It's unimaginable that one of the most complex machines on earth would ever go wrong.
 
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