How some of the post-federation Ukraine threads feel like (lemmygrad.ml)

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[-] zephyreks@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

How does Russia get weaker? Their trade with the rest of BRICS has been skyrocketing, their technology is actually getting developed for once, and the country is more unified than ever. All this war has done is decouple the Russian economy from the European one, which, sure, isn't ideal, but that's already happened.

Now? The EU is more dependent on the US, and Russia is more dependent on China/India rather than the EU. Globalization is backsliding, and that's dangerous because globalization is what kept the peace after the Cold War.

[-] Tire@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Russia is weaker because the ruble is tanking, there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so, they are using up their military equipment faster than they can replace it and they are literally losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers.

[-] EmotionalSupportLancet@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Holy shit that’s a bad take. Who has hypersonics, is it the west yes or no?

Was it the west that lagged behind in material sciences and failed to realize titanium welding could be a game changer in submarine technology?

Who is it that has been recently and repeatedly proven to lag behind in anti-air solutions? Kinda one of the most important parts of modern war (even artillery plays second fiddle if it has to fear air superiority).

Supposed western tech superiority only has a single shining example in GPS being unveiled during Iraq and only the collapse of the USSR is why they didn’t get there on an equivalent time frame. They won every part of the space race except the moon, and are still the one and only for Venus among other accomplishments.

[-] Tire@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You mean the hypersonic missile that was shot down by Ukrainian air defense? 🤣

[-] space_comrade@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so

Ah yes of course the dirty dumb slavs are just so stupid they can't possibly invent anything new, they need the Glorious Western Master Race to give them the tools to do so.