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View submission: How the West Was Lost
Even CNN[1] says that Russia is producing 3x the artillery shells of the US and Europe combined.
Comment by charlsey2309 at 19/01/2025 at 04:01 UTC
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Because the US isn’t going to fight an artillery battle its doctrine is focused on air supremacy and never needing to slog it out in an artillery battle.
Comment by General_Mayhem at 19/01/2025 at 02:56 UTC
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Because the US and Europe aren't currently at war...
The industrial capacity of Russia is laughably small compared to its potential, because of mismanagement and looting by Putin & co. They have the autocracy advantage of being able to force everything to a single focus, but it's a large fraction of a small denominator. If the US had a war to win, and if wars were still primarily determined by raw materiel and boots (which I'm not sure is true in the drone/missile age), it would get 1942 in a hurry.
Comment by cornholio2240 at 19/01/2025 at 12:55 UTC
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Yeah they shifted 30% of their GDP to production I assumed they’d produce more? The US isn’t currently 100k dead deep in a conflict on our border so we don��t have to do WW2 level of production.