Comments by "Sam Miller" (@sammiller6631) on "Can Russia win the military production race?" video.

@harleyquinn8202 Russia's artillery has dropped significantly in two years. What's the condition of Russian artillery barrels after firing 60,000 rounds per day? Their firing rate is down by 75% now. It is safe to say that Russian advantage in artillery is not the advantage now as it was, thus the level of losses of Ukrainians is not as high now as you claim.
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@PeterPete The Russian economy grew by 4% by extreme measures by the Russian Central Bank. The rouble is still between 86 - 100 roubles to the dollar.
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You can't claim 22 times more if Western countries lack the political will. Has the EU sent the million 155mm shells they promised last year?
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@ОнуфрийНечепуренко the GDP of modern economies is not strictly services. Which would have a greater impact on the world if the US stopped its agricultural exports or stopped online pornography?
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@PeterPete Yes, I want to deny that. The Russians are doing poorly compared with what their numbers on paper would suggest. Have you forgotten the 40 mile stalled convoy?
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@PeterPete It's rough for Ukrainian soldiers in Avdiivka. Because war is always rough on anyone involved it. I doubt you would be able to handle it. Do you always surrender so easily?
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@qinby1182 Stop cherrypicking to spin a pro-Russia narrative. Most Western countries have debt below 80%. The ruble is no longer a convertible currency. Russian debt is growing every month the "special military operation" continues. The extreme capital restrictions from Russian Central Bank means you can't take your money out of the country and interest rates hovering around 20% are not sustainable in the long term.
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@qinby1182 Russia and Ukraine are at war, even if Russia insists on calling it a "special military operation". You can have a war and still sell pipeline gas. It's possible to say Russia invaded Ukraine because they wouldn't have to pay pipeline transit fees to Ukraine if it were conquered.
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@bernardzsikla5640 Why is Russia trading meters for bodies?
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@harleyquinn8202 Russian invasion forces have not "doubled" to 10000 rounds, because they used to be firing 60000 rounds. That's an 83% drop. You fail to understand that Ukraine has more support inside Russia than Russia has inside Ukraine, which is why Ukrainians can sneak throughout the country to blow up factories, fly short range drones through Moscow or those Russian trains blown up in a Far East mountain tunnel near China's border carrying Russian oil to China. If it's not Ukrainian special forces, it's rebel Russian locals.
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@Chantillian Look at how long the Soviet Union was in Afghanistan.
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@PeterPete Okay, I'll be waiting to hear from you in 30 days.
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@gregvanpaassen Advertising copy-writers or financial analysts can do production of materiel, or for logistics. Like Russian bakeries are being used to produce drones.
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@major__kong Why doesn't the US have the labour supply?
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@whitescar2 But does Germany have more raw materials than Russia to make that stuff? I thought Germany's economy was based heavily on exporting finished goods?
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@whitescar2 The Germans invent things if they can't import them. Germany's Haber-Bosch process has increased food yields that caused the population explosion from around 1 billion in 1900 to 8 billion people in 2022. Half of the nitrogen atoms in the body of an average person today once passed through a chemical plant and participated in the nitrogen-to-ammonia Haber-Bosch reaction. Over half the people living today would not exist without that German invention. Perhaps no other human invention has had a more dramatic impact on Earth than Haber-Bosch chemistry.
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@whitescar2 Rare earth metals aren't rare. The Mountain Pass mine in California was the world's largest producer of rare earths in the 20th Century, but RE refining is extremely expensive or highly polluting. China does not care about pollution so they can produce more than everyone else at a lower price. The Mountain Pass mine in California has gone through many cycles of going bankrupt and going dormant as the price swings. The wastewater from that RE mine is radioactive because of the presence of thorium and radium, which occur naturally in the rare-earth ore. A federal investigation later found that some 60 spills—some unreported—occurred between 1984 and 1998, when the pipeline and chemical processing at the mine were shut down. In all, about 600,000 gallons of radioactive and other hazardous waste flowed onto the desert floor, according to federal authorities. By the end of the 1990s, Unocal was served with a cleanup order and a San Bernardino County district attorney's lawsuit. The company paid more than $1.4 million in fines and settlements. That would never happen in China. So there's no WW3 problem caused by China restricting imports of rare earth elements. The problem is the struggle between corporations wanting cheap rare earths versus local cities who don't want radioactive leaks or blackened skies.
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