Bullets:
- The war in Ukraine consumes vast quantities of arms and ammunition, supplied almost entirely by the US and the EU.
- Battlefield demands in Ukraine far outstrip the combined production of the entire Western bloc.
- Arsenals across the EU are empty, and the United States is far more reluctant today to supply the Ukraine war effort.
- But Europe faces severe problems in their efforts to rearm, and to make good their public support and promises to Ukraine.
- Despite having a far smaller economy than either the US or the EU, Russia easily produces more ammunition and war materiel than the NATO countries, combined.
- Meanwhile, Russia’s close ally China has the world’s most productive industrial sector, and monopolies on the supply chains necessary to build armaments.
- Last year, China cut off exports of antimony, a critical component of explosives, and antimony prices have more than quadrupled in less than a year.
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Lmao god forbid there’s a real war that requires production of weapons
This is just Russian propaganda. Ukraine has not “broken” the EU. They have been slow to ramp up production, certainly, but it’s happening and more money is being thrown at it, and Ukraine, than ever during this conflict.
This is very much a real war
The Russian economy is less than a tenth the size of the United States or the European Union
I wish I had the self-confidence to pontificate on Russian domestic arms production while apparently being unaware of something as basic as purchasing-power-parity adjusted measurements.
