Russia and Ukraine

[Deesse23]

Russia has enormous industrial capacity. They produce more tanks than any other country.

Again, someone shows his utter incompetence.

The GDP of Germany is more than TWICE that of Russia. The only reason Germany is producing less tanks than Russia is because Germany HAS DECIDED NOT TO DO SO.
There are TEN countries in the world with a higher GDP than Russia, being able to produce more of whatever-they-want (Korea is is one of them by the way. So fear the enormous industrial capability of Korea. Seriously, you should Look at how many tanks they actually produce and export, you would be surprised).

Russia is producing more tanks than Germany because Russia has decided to allocate a higher PERCENTAGE of its GDP to military spending. Its basic math, every middle school kid could figure than out. Bel of course didnt, since he didnt want to:

GDP Russia: 1.7T
GDP Germany: 4,3T
Military spending Russia: 65Bn
Military spending Germany: 56Bn

Russia decided*, with less than half the GDP to allocate more than twice its PERCENTAGE to military spending, resulting in a 20% superior total sum. Its really no rocket science.

Sure maybe Russia has more tank factories at the moment, being able to churn out more tanks. But guess what: How long do you think it would take a country like Germany to ramp up its production (lines)?** Hint: USA 1941+

Out of the ten countries with a higher GDP than Russia, 6 are NATO members, and excluding the US, they have almost NINE times Russias GDP. Including the USA its TWENTY TWO times that.

Ukraines existence is in no way depening on Russias 2023 tank production or ABILITY to conquer, but on the political WILL of a bunch of Russias opponents / Ukraines supporters to do whats required to stop Russia from doing so.
THATS why you see this creeping escalation in involvment.

*all things like efficiency being equal, and i suspect Russia is not as efficient as Germany, because.....corruption, ya know
** Been there, done that. Speer got 20y of jailtime for it, and no t-shirt.