They just don't get as many kills, face facts.That's just Ukraine releasing all their kill videos. The Russians don't do that.
Likely part of a larger tactic.Haven't you heard? Ocheretyne fell due to a Ukrainian battalion running away from its position. That place was a major supply hub, so they left behind a lot of weapons.
The Chinese have the economy to buy it from elsewhere.If Russia stops supplying oil to China, the Chinese are far more screwed than the Russians are.
Shows how you know nothing about this.
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It's 20% of GDP for Russia.Lol. Russia sells as much energy as the Saudis, but oil represents 40% of their GDP while that's 16% for the Russians. When it comes to income, that's 75% and 34%.
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So that's ~40+% revenue, so a third of that is ~14% of revenue. Also, a large part of the rest of Russian GDP now is just making stuff to get destroyed or blow up, which is not profitable.
Lack of cash and high population a shithole make.And what matters is the size of the population, nobody cares about per capita in this metric. Hard cash and population a superpower makes.
I see a guy who was laughing about a one-off, surprise attack against a Saudi oil refinery about 5 years back, because it beat a PAC-1 system. Now the same thing is happening regularly against his beloved S-400/500 systems in an official war and he thinks it's not an issue.I see sand all over your head and face.