Comments by "Keit Hammleter" (@keithammleter3824) on "KondorCars" channel.

  1. every time you see a brand name or model number of a machine or tool, it is a western European brand. Given the sanctions this must be giving them some headaches keeping this place running.
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  2.  @karlharrison2449  : I wasn't commenting on the effect of sanctions generally, I was commenting that the particular factory shown in this video is likely to be having problems, due to its equipment being imported. However, I don't doubt that Russia will AFTER some time be strengthened by the sanctions - history shows that's what long term sanctions do - for example the 1960's and 1970's sanctions against South Africa boosted their industry and caused them to make gasoline from coal. And South Africa is a much smaller country than Russia. However, in the short term it can make things difficult. It takes years to build up technical skills and supply chains to make things that used to be imported. You see this in the Russian airline industry, which is now flying aircraft with parts cannabalized from aircraft taken out of service. Everyone expected the Russian airforce to actively support their ground troops in the Ukraine. That's what they were trained to do after the reforms post Chechnya. However this is not happening much, and one presumes that is because they need to conserve flying hours due to parts shortages until they get their own factories on line. We saw that Russia sent a lot of tanks to Ukraine out of long term storage. These tanks suffered a lot of breakdowns (part of the reason why the initial invasion failed is because tank radios failed, so commanders could not direct their tanks). Russia has learnt from that and has since been sending its' stored tanks back to the factory for overhaul/refurbishment. This is going much slower than Putin and his top brass wanted - again parts supply appears to be the problem. For example they had been importing night gun sights from France. I also agree that sanctions bite the country imposing them as well (eg USA) because they aren't selling what they formerly were selling. But that is not a concern to the factory in this video.
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  3.  @karlharrison2449  Why not?
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