Comments by "Antony Wooster" (@antonywooster6783) on "Russian military prepares for conflict with neocons and NATO" video.
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35:25 The Grinding down approach has the merit that while the Ukraine army fights, it is using up the CW's stock of weapons at an extraordinary rate. It is using these weapons profligately, probably faster than better trained troops would and, probably, with less effect than better trained troops would. If this goes on much longer, the CW's arsenals are going to be so depleted that they will not be able to sustain US or UK or French or German "boots on the Ground. (BotG).
To sustain a war effort (and particularly if you are at the same time building ships as fast as you can) you need steel, lots and lots of it and not just any old steel either. You need alloy steel and for that you need, in addition to iron, nickel, chromium, vanadium, manganese and I dare say other, more exotic components. You will also need lots of titanium, copper, tin and aluminium. You would also need uranium for electricity, and for driving submarines.
Most of the iron foundries and steel mills that used to be in Germany, the US and the UK have migrated to China. Steel comes, I believe, mostly from China these days. The UK used to make iron and steel but most of that industry was closed down by Thatcher. The aluminium mostly comes from Russia as does most of the titanium. Some, at least of the European plants making aluminium have closed down for lack of cheap Russian gas. So you would have to make do with the output of Iceland and Norway (and Canada?) Uranium also comes from Russia.
You would also need a lot of oil, for fuel, for lubrication and to make plastics. My impression is that most plastics these days, come from China and, of course, oil can be a bit of a problem!
It all looks like a logistical nightmare to me.
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