It's because it's worked exactly two times in regards to sanctions, and even then it took decades, and that was in combination with extensive bush wars. Even then in the end the governments themselves chose to change. However given how Rhodesia/Zimbabwe and South Africa have turned out, I'm not sure it's the best endorsement of the strategy.
That was 30 years ago. The building, the tooling, the staff are all gone. If you want it you will be starting over from scratch. That is what I'm saying.
It's not about quality. It is about ability. Do you guys know how expensive and complicated it is to make modern chipsets? Motherfuckers are going to be going back to 80286 chips they ripped off in the 80's from Intel.
That's an entirely different situation exacerbated by Germany refusing to take responsibility for their swamp people.
More vetting than what happened with refugees in 2015.
The Dutch should just accept they're stoner mermaids and let the ocean claim them.
I bet this HR Karen has been googling furiously "weapons" "guns" "what are shells" "knives types" "amazon bullets" ever since the harrowing invasion of Ottawa by boomer truckers.
Looks like America's annexing Canada a little early in the FO timeline!
Now's the time, lads.
When virtue signaling goes wrong.
i don't mean to imply that russian civilianss will rise up and heroically overthrow putin french revolution style, that is not going to happen.
It’s amazing how Russia has completely fucked up any ambitions it could have of being more than a legacy power only relevant because of a nuclear arsenal in just three weeks. God, I am absolutely stunned by this, the confirmed losses of equipment are absolutely staggering and unsustainable. I’m guessing at least 20% losses to their modernized tank fleet alone, to enemy action. This isn’t including breakdowns among units from poor maintenance. This has been an absolute fucking disaster in about every metric for Russia and it’s getting worse and worse and worse.
Except for Quebec. Those fuckers get forcibly given back to the French, whether they want em or not. We certainly don't need their shit.
Same people who go:
Nobody calls Bono. He just calls in until they pick up and give him some airtime. Trust me those people don't give a fuck what he thinks either.
Considering how many older model t72s we've seen I doubt it's that high a percentage tbh. Russia has so many of those stockpiled that they can afford to lose them. The crews are a different story. I do have to wonder if this will be the final push for them to switch over to a new model tank however.
Considering how they've been trying to switch to the T-14 for years at this point and haven't even made 20 of them so far I doubt it. Especially with the upcoming financial situation Russia is looking at.
We’ve seen a lot of newer modernized models that pretty much rely on western FCS destroyed as well. The amount of modernized Russian armor was never super high to start with by all appearances and the bulk is being thrown into the grinder here. The 4th Guards Tank Division has taken very heavy losses, about 10 to 20% of their T-72B3M stocks overall have been lost, there’s been T-90A’s reported as lost and a hell of a lot of dead or captured T-80’s, a good chunk of which are the BVM, which is the latest upgrade package for the T-80 in Russian service. None of this is good, and it’s likely worse than what we can see. This isn’t getting into other vehicle losses, which is also pretty damn bad for units which are supposed to be the best the Russians can throw together. Sure, there’s reserve tanks, but how many are working, how many have been regularly maintained, how many can they find crews for, how fast can they move them in, etc. It ain’t good.
Possibly. But even in the 90s they would still buy new equipment at a trickle, I wonder if they won't do the same here. Also remember Russians prioritize defense much differently than the west.
