locke besse
2 min readMar 17, 2023

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Utter nonsense. Russia’s economy is smaller than that of Texas or Italy. The US defense budget is larger than the rest of the world combined. Especially with sanctions, Russia has no hope of keeping up with the US defense production. Then toss in all the NATO countries with their own industries. Your conclusion is absurd.

As to needing training on advanced weapons systems, you are correct. What do you think NATO has been doing for many months? That’s right training Ukraine army units. It has been underway for sometime and continues as we speak. Russian production can’t keep up. They are scraping the bottom of the barrel with their depleted inventory. Have you even bothered to look at the pictures of Russian artillery shells and bullets that are completely worthless? Piles of rust. Not to mention that Putin’s partial mobilization sent almost 1 million of its best and brightest to the border to escape the draft.

Many of the Russian soldiers now on the front line came from the very factories that you are so confident are producing all the arms needed. Production has been severely curtailed and is getting worse. If Russian production is so robust, why are they buying drones from Iran and artillery shells from North Korea and begging the Chinese for military assistance? They are desperate for armaments because their inventory is severely depleted and production can’t keep up.

Try reading the posts of those on the frontline in Ukraine who have actually lived in that country or Russia and have real military experience. They are the ones you should be drawing your conclusions from.

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locke besse
locke besse

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Eclectic trans woman, terminally curious. Too many degrees. Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up. Attract stray puppies and social outcasts

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