US official admits Russia's Military has almost completely reconstituted itself

 

Russian workers in St. Petersburg working on new military vehicles. Business Insider/AFP. 

 A US official admits that Russia's military has almost completely reconstituted itself after two years of war with Ukraine. Business Insider. Deputy Secretary of State Kurt Campbell made the comments at a speech at a think tank. He also said that Moscow had faced setbacks in the war but has now retools and is a major threat to not just Ukraine but to America as well. He also cited help Russia had received from China, with $240 billion in commerce happening between the two countries. Other analysts have been more pessimistic about Russia's production. Others note that Russia is pumping out massive numbers of tanks and armored vehicles to replace battlefield losses and its entire economy is on a war footing. 

My Comment:

When I was in college, one of my history professors told us that he also taught a class about World War II. In that class he said that he only covered the combat in the war for about two weeks of the course while the rest of it was entirely about the industrial production of the allies. He said that was what was actually important in World War II and the side that had a better industrial production was going to inevitably win the war. That always stuck with me and I think it's been obvious from the start that Russia was going to win the war in Ukraine for that very reason. 

It's about time that at least some people acknowledged the idea that Russia is able to sustain their war in Ukraine. Our media has been lying from the start, since that is their role now, but you would think that the higher ups in NATO would acknowledge basic facts like Russia having a good military production scheme. You would think that would mean they would cut their losses in Ukraine, but that hasn't happened yet, so it raises the question. Are they high on their own supply of propaganda?

Keep in mind too, that Russia isn't alone in their war against Ukraine. They also are getting weapons from Iran and North Korea. Given that Russia's weapon production alone is better than NATO's, when you add Iran and North Korea it's not even close. 

NATO on the other hand has basically nowhere near the industrial production needed to make the war with Russia possible. They don't even have the production to arm their own forces, let alone Ukraine. The coffers are empty and they don't have anywhere near the production to keep up with Russia. 

The article went on about supposed Russian casualties, using an extremely high estimate that has little relation to reality. Russia has not lost 300,000 troops, but even if they did it wouldn't matter as they have a huge reserve of men and no shortage of volunteers. Given that Ukraine has essentially run out of men due to both casualties and people fleeing the country, Ukraine doesn't have a realistic chance of winning even with NATO support.