Russia wont forget these actions by the west, irrelevant of those will replace putin, thats just the way it is, either russia gets what they want or the west will be in a constant fight to defend itself for the next decades til one side has finally lost, I also dont think that such procurements are empty announcements, they do have the revenue streams via oil and gas, thats a lot of money- a lot, especially for a country like Russia which has a much lower living cost and lower wages then the US for example they can certainly increase the size of modern arms considerably.
Its gonna be interesting.
Uhmm the announcement come in a moment Russia is fighting in a war its not looking so good for them.
The cost of a war is huge, much more under the sactions and a
general mobilization while selling your resources as cheap as you can.
International investors (at least from west, used to be the main ones in their economy) won't put an euro or dollar in Russia until this ends and we can find a new status quo.
So with oil and gas not flowing to Europe and pipelines to the rest of Asia stopped as it requires more investments and west machinery, I would like to find out how Russia can make such investment after the war, when your educated and prepared people
already fled, or are trying to find out an exit, others are being killed in the war, and you won't touch a single piece of west technology for years, with their GDP falling this year up to a 15%
and inflation jumping to the same amount.
Russia would need to find customers for roughly 2.3 million barrels of crude and oil products a day, which is about 20 percent of its average output in 2022, according to the International Energy Agency.
We are whitenesing also what they did in decades of economic growing with their military machine.
What are you going to do, a T-72 rebranding? While paying a huge amount of money in social compensations, probably war compensations and your people trying to forget the war and its consecuences?
Are you going to recover the 80% of your army manpower in that period with that money when the ones with a bit of will are already buried? Can you make such national effort when social disenchantment is great enough and opposition is striking as never before?
For me that is just money related to pay consecuences of this war and an announcement for indoor propaganda, I could be wrong but I'm almost sure it won't mean new military toys, when their new ones in peace times are being released from the factory in dribs and drabs.
I don't really know a politician in Putin's situation capable of, but let's see for sure!
