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[-] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org -5 points 5 days ago

@Carrolade@lemmy.world

O pull your head out of the sand. You must be young and don't remember the Rust Bowl in America. And all the Americans thrown out of work as they deindustrialized. No one has the capacity to beat Russia in producing armaments. It takes years to build that type of capacity.

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[-] Foni@lemm.ee -2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Of course, that’s why they’ve been able to devastate Ukraine without facing much resistance. They’re certainly not being humiliated, are they?

But let’s be real, there’s a big difference between being able to build tractors with a cannon attached and actually producing proper tanks. Europe has one capability, and Russia has the other—I don’t need to spell out which is which, the convoy heading toward Kyiv at the start of the war made that pretty clear.

[-] badwetter@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 5 days ago

@Foni@lemm.ee

You're quite deluded about Russia.

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[-] Foni@lemm.ee -1 points 4 days ago

It could be, I'm not a military expert, but I have eyes in my face and I can see that they're not capable of gaining air superiority against one of the poorest countries in Europe. Maybe they didn't want to, but I believe they couldn't. I see that it's almost been three years since the Moskva sank, and there's still no replacement in sight. Maybe they don't want to build one, but I think they can't.

Maybe I'm quite deluded about Russia.

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