Matthew Loutner
Hindustan Times
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Comments by "Matthew Loutner" (@Matthew_Loutner) on "Russia attacks Ukraine positions with 'world's largest mortar' as Kyiv claims gains on battlefield" video.
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@glatzefratz8492 "approx 20% of their equipment should be brand new"?
Where do you get that? Just make it up out of your head?
The only "brand new" equipment I know of is the Kinsai hypersonic ballistic missile. And they already used it in Lyviv.
I also know they have 3 or 4 SU-57 fighter jets. But Ukraine shot one down. So maybe they do not want to take a chance with the other two.
I also know they build 20 brand new Sarmat 28 nuclear ICBMs every year. But those do not fit into this type of war.
At any rate . . .
If they do have any brand new equipment, there is no chance at all that any of it would be "more advanced" than western equipment.
Russia has always had a sluggish economy and has lagged way behind the rest of the world technologically speaking. They cannot even make their own semiconductors. When we do get our hands on their downed equipment and dissect it, we always find American-made semiconductors on the inside.
All of their weapons are based on large explosive brute force -- they are not high-tech, precision-weapons like the American weapons are. That is why they are losing -- they do not have or know how to make high-tech weapons.
Russia is a poor, remote, backward, way-behind, sleepy-head country, trying to rebuild the empire of Catharine the Great. That is why most of Ukraine does not want to join their federation. Ukraine wants to move forward into the 21st century and Russia doesn't.
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Russia is a poor, rural, agrarian society. They are the world's largest exporter of wheat. They derive their income from sales of grain, crude oil, natural gas. They do not have a lot of manufacturing or industry and are not a world leader in anything (except ICBM building).
Poland has no interest in attacking remote, backward, sleepy-headed Russia. Poland has their own life to live and is not interested in living someone else's life. The only country Russia should be afraid of is China, who is sitting right on their border, has a long history of building great Chinese empires, and is trying to take over whatever country they can get with their big greedy eyes. 👀
The Chinese would love to get their hands on those Siberian oil fields and refineries. They import a LOT of oil.
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