Comment by General_Mayhem on 19/01/2025 at 02:56 UTC

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View submission: How the West Was Lost

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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.

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There's nothing here!