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- europe@hexbear.net
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- cross-posted to:
- europe@hexbear.net
- europe
“We don’t have a sense of urgency.”
Well…yeah, as it turns out, not everyone is all that eager to mobilized into working 16 hour shifts at military factories and have all their personal income forcefully taxed away to fund said military factories for the sake of vanguarding a bourgeoisie ideology.
I suppose the same partially effects Russia too though, Ukraine would have long been curb stomped by now if Russia had proper early USSR socialist ideological integrity to rally it forward rather then just simply acting out of defense to Western imperialism.
Even if Russia had USSR style economy, it wouldn’t be possible to roll over Ukraine without taking horrific losses in the process. Russian approach was to methodically grind down the AFU using artillery where Russia has 10x advantage. I doubt this process could’ve gone significantly faster in practice if Russia wanted to minimize casualties on their end. On top of it, I’d argue that dragging things out worked in Russia’s favor in the long run as it slowly depleted western economies, while allowing Russia to redirect trade and strengthen alliances within BRICS.
You might be right that the protracted nature of this conflict is working Russia’s favor. Regardless, I’m less confident in modern Russia and it’s chaotic ideological identity to endure and follow through with necessary measures as much as I would with Stalin era USSR.
No disagreement there.
also, the factories dont exist, so first you’d have to spend 16 hour days building them. except that building things is against western ideology.