(October 1, 2022 at 2:54 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Crucially, they're chewing through years of production in items we're not expending at all and so will still be there should we need them, or should we decide to say fuck it, be heroes, and give ukr a load of cruise missiles, jets, and tanks. Money, you can make it and lose it. Time, you only lose that.
And it will take a good amount of time for a Russian economy hobbled by sanctions to replace the stuff that got shot out of the tubes, shot up by enemy tubes, shot down by enemy SAMs, or surrendered to the UAF and the Tractor Brigades. I think Putin in that sense has mortgaged his nation's future status as a power unless they're willing to orbit China.
