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Short answer: Yes.
The Russian ground forces don't seem to have the training nor flexibility for operating in hostile territory. Nor do their logistics seem strong enough. (Information keeps leaking out about shortages of Russian fuel, ammo, food - & poor morale.) If they don't have the logistics to keep the front-line troops in beans & bullets, they're not going to do well in urban warfare - unless they simply pound everything into rubble. (& that would depend on their stock of long-range cannon ammo & missiles.)
Russia would suspend its market economy. During WWII as you so cite, the Allies suspended their market economies to enable their ability to conduct war.What would the effects be? Because the only times I can think of bankrupted nations with market economies continuing to fight wars are in cases of countries like Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan. And both those countries lost. But do we have examples of bankrupt nations continuing to maintain large occupying forces outside the homeland for long stretches of time?
Russia would suspend its market economy. During WWII as you so cite, the Allies suspended their market economies to enable their ability to conduct war.
Now I'm not saying that Russia is going to be successful in this war against Ukraine. All I'm saying is that when it comes down to it, Russia isn't going to just roll over because some bankers in suits are huffy with them. Being a nation state means that they have the ability and prerogative to seize control over all of Russia's resources and utilize them to conduct hostilities for years.
Here is a question I had for any macroeconomic wonks among us who also have any expertise in overall warfighting capabilities of nations: If Russia defaults on its sovereign debt as it appears it is about to do, how would that affect it effectively continue its war against Ukraine?
Russia could be about to default on its debt: Here's what you need to know
Russia could be about to default on its foreign currency debts for the first time in decades, likely beginning a drawn out wrangling process.www.cnbc.com
What would be the effects, if any, of a sovereign default on Russia's ability to wage war and maintain an occupation force?
No idea, but I have an account on VK that surprisingly hasn't been shut down or limited access yet. I also can't speak Russian. But, using Google Translate to read comments being posted by Russian users ... most of them are presenting themselves as being 100% on board with the Krelim's POV. Obviously there may be private views not being shared. However what I interpret from what I see is that the the "average" Russian is basically impervious to the reality of the situation in Ukraine.Well, Russia certainly does have a history having done that, and I am sure they have muscle memory of total state control over all industries and productive capacity as well as rationing things such as food and fuel for the civilian population (We did it and Great Britain did it during WW2). I just cannot imagine how successful central economic planning would be, and how long such autarky would be able to last.
Over the same period, Moscow has tried to wean its oil-dependent economy off the dollar, limited government spending and stockpiled foreign currencies.
Putin's economic planners have sought to boost domestic production of certain goods by blocking equivalent products from abroad. Moscow has meanwhile amassed a war chest of $630 billion in international reserves — a huge sum compared to most other countries.
Well aware of this, US sanctions have targeted some weak points in the 'fortress'.David Lubin, a Citi economist and associate fellow at Chatham House, said "fortress economics" requires the creation of big foreign currency reserves that can be spent if sanctions bite.
The United States is also trying to hobble Russian military and industrial companies by preventing them from buying critical technology such as advanced computer chips.
It's also worth noting that in addition to those sectors, the Russian rail company is also nationalized. This is important as rail is critical to Russian logistics.government control is now highly concentrated in energy, banking and a handful of other, often “strategic” sectors—perhaps not surprising considering the topic of Putin’s somewhat controversial dissertation on strategic planning and state control of resources. (Source)
I highly recommend reading this article. It is rather long but very insightful.Russian army logistics forces are not designed for a large-scale ground offensive far from their railroads. Inside maneuver units, Russian sustainment units are a size lower than their Western counterparts....The reason Russia is unique in having railroad brigades is that logistically, Russian forces are tied to railroad from factory to army depot and to combined arms army and, where possible, to the division/brigade level. No other European nation uses railroads to the extent that the Russian army does. Part of the reason is that Russia is so vast — over 6,000 miles from one end to the other.
Russia has been trying to develop domestic silicon production for some time. With....limited success.Commercial electronics are typically designed to last just a few years. But military electronic systems need to last a few decades. The ASICs go inside vehicles and other equipment that will be deployed to remote locations for 20 or even 30 years. The high tech chips must also be resilient enough to withstand high altitudes and extreme environments, such as deserts and the coldest uninhabited regions. For military devices, reliability and dependability are matters of life and death.
“If our stuff doesn’t work then our war fighters are seriously in trouble,” says Kober. “Their lives are dependent on things behaving the way they’re supposed to.” (Source)
The company advertised the systems as 'all-Russian' computers that use hardware and software designed in Russia. But the memory, SSDs, HDDs, and other components were neither designed nor produced in Russia.
Despite its rather mediocre configuration and feature set, the 28-nm Baikal-M has an up to 35W TDP, which is okay for mainstream desktops and entry-level laptops, but which excludes these SoCs from various sleek PC designs and various small form-factor edge applications.
Harvard Business School professor Willy Shih told Protocol that a significant portion of the imported chips are analog semiconductors used in industrial equipment and things such as switches and motor controls.
Infineon, an analog chipmaker based in Germany, exports the largest dollar value of loose chips to Russia, according to the data.
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Nations at war — including democracies — have far-reaching power to seize control over their economy and direct the means of production during wartime. Just because such a thing hasn't happened in some time doesn't mean that Russia can't implement these policies.
These are policies like: nationalizing industries and factories, rationing goods (sugar, oil, copper, coffee, etc.), selling wartime bonds, resurrecting conscription, importing migrant labor, etc.
Russia would suspend its market economy. During WWII as you so cite, the Allies suspended their market economies to enable their ability to conduct war.
Now I'm not saying that Russia is going to be successful in this war against Ukraine. All I'm saying is that when it comes down to it, Russia isn't going to just roll over because some bankers in suits are huffy with them. Being a nation state means that they have the ability and prerogative to seize control over all of Russia's resources and utilize them to conduct hostilities for years.
The average Russian's POV is warped to the point of incredulity. Like, I cannot even begin to describe it: "The entire world is racist, evil and out to get us ... poor, helpless Russia! Vladimir Putin's the sole person who is willing to stand up against the world. God bless him! We've been through major economic crises before: the shock therapy, the 1998 and 2014 crisis. We'll do our patriotic duty to our country and to our countrymen and ride this out. Like we've done before."I'm no expert but aren't you talking about a total war scenario where a nation diverts all its resources towards a war effort. It would be absurd for Russia to need to do that just to subjugate Ukraine. He could not justify it politically. So, he would have to keep paying for the war by running up massive deficits and printing rubles. Of course, this would lead to runaway hyperinflation. As we see with North Korea, it all depends on how much suffering the people are willing to tolerate. In theory, they can operate with a ruined economy forever like North Korea. But North Korea is not actively in combat. If your enemy is being supported by external allies then you will eventually lose the conflict and be forced to retreat to within your borders.
Sure, but Russia's an autocratic country. Personal discontentment or disagreement is never voiced. To do so is a surefire way to destroy your career, your family and risk long-term imprisonment. Absolutely nothing will change about Putin's control of the country unless it gets really, really, really unimaginably bad for the average Russian and that permits the floodgates to blow and civil unrest to start.Suspending the Russian market economy over a war that is entirely of Russia’s choice and that they can end at any time with no threat to Russia would not be a popular decision, whether from the oligarchs or the average Russian.
Pretty hard to buy up weapons when the world is keeping away from you the materials needed to make them.Here is a question I had for any macroeconomic wonks among us who also have any expertise in overall warfighting capabilities of nations: If Russia defaults on its sovereign debt as it appears it is about to do, how would that affect it effectively continue its war against Ukraine?
Russia could be about to default on its debt: Here's what you need to know
Russia could be about to default on its foreign currency debts for the first time in decades, likely beginning a drawn out wrangling process.www.cnbc.com
What would be the effects, if any, of a sovereign default on Russia's ability to wage war and maintain an occupation force?
Your propaganda cries get more and more desperate. Russia screwed up, they destroyed their country and showed the world just how weak their military is.OP ,just keep watching .
America is going under . Russia is not even blinking .
More in the world will work with Russia than will not . The Petro Dollar is dead and America goes under fairly quickly.
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