Comments by "jeppen" (@jesan733) on "Business Insider"
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@samg8939 if you truly cared about Ukraine's young, perhaps you wouldn't find it hilarious that they die. Also, by calling me a democracy enthusiast, I gather you don't care much for democracy either. That's sad. My take is that Ukraine could absolutely win. Wars are industrial endeavours these days, and the collective West is 1 billion rich people while Russia is 140 million relatively poor people. We should absolutely be able to outproduce them and we have more sophisticated tech which can help Ukraine maintain/attain reasonable attrition ratios. Also, the Kremlin could have a coup at any moment, and then whatever comes after will need to withdraw from Ukraine and focus inwards.
And if I were to lower myself to your level of cynicism: Ukraine doesn't need any particular population level. After the war, they'll have the population they have at that point. Russia today has 8 people/sq km and Ukraine as 61 people/sq km. Both demographics will take a hit and it's horrible, obviously, but the countries will continue functioning. Meanwhile, freedom and sovereignty are worth defending. Ukraine has already lost almost a century to communism and convulsions following the fall of communism. Why lose more generations to the Russian fascist mafia state, and then when that falls, still face an uncertain future. Democracy is now, sovereignty is now.
And why would the US allow global democracy to falter? It's much more important that we maintain and safeguard the democracies that we have then it is to flip dictatorships (like was attempted in Iraq).
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@mrobocop1666 "West has 1 billion population and more money BUT while wholev NATO can produce only 85 thousand shells per month, Russia alone produce 450 thousand"
I don't think we know this. I've looked around and seen no reliable OSINT that summarizes this. Also NATO can use e.g. South Korean production capacity.
"Russia already has a number of serially produced hypersonic missiles, while NATO don't have working hypersonic missile at all."
Russia has very low production volumes of those and it seems it isn't using them to much military effect.
"Russian multilayered advanced air defence systems like Tot, S-400, S-500 are greatly more effective by any measurement that Western best one - 50 year old rusty Patriot SAM."
I doubt this assessment. It seems to me the western side has been pleasantly surprised at how effective Patriot is, that it can shoot down even Kinzhals, while Russia seems largely unable to take out the slow Storm Shadows and probably would have similar difficulties with tomahawks, ATACAMS and other missiles in the NATO inventory.
"Russian Ka-52 is the only attack copter which have an ejection seat and can fly with a tail blown off"
I think more than half of Russia's Ka-52 inventory has been shot down, and Russia allegedly has some shortages of experienced aviators.
"And there are more such examples where Russia is ahead of NATO countries"
Russia is quite depleted and ground down at this point, and where it's ahead in tech on paper, I think it has too little and would be unable to use it effectively. NATO training, command and control, surveillance and precision are far superior and would prove devastating to Russia.
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