Then why have the veto power at all?
I mean, is something really stopping them from setting up their own task forces without America?
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I don’t really see what’s stopping the others from setting up their own task forces without America.
The Black Sea ain’t an area where naval supremacy is really achievable.
People laugh at Moskva sinking to a country with no navy but forget that Ukraine has modern AShMs and the Black Sea is cramped and easy to deny access to. Russian ships sinking was a given.
Although I suppose with the disaster at Kursk occurring, Ukraine is looking for any PR to send out.
Which is still not a wartime economy. You are right that Russia is forcing the private sector to pick up the slack. Majority of military spending does not go into the Special Military Operation. The majority of forces in Ukraine are from irregular volunteer formations recruited from regions across Russia. These irregular volunteer formations rely on their local regional government to supply them with weapons and equipment alongside crowdfunding campaigns and donations from organizations like the Popular Front.
This is well shown by the Tuvan volunteers who come from the poorest region in Russia which shows in their equipment:
Here are donations from the Popular Front:
Chechnya was probably affected the most by this war economically speaking as they have recently taken up the burden of training and equipping a large portion of volunteers:
So most of the federal government's military spending (which is still larger than the entirety of Europe's military spending combined when using PPP which is what really matters when talking about militaries) is actually not being used for the SMO but for a large-scale military buildup for future operations. This means regional governments are the ones footing the bill. But even so, they are not at a wartime footing. These regional governments outside of Chechnya are really only providing their soldiers with the bare essentials which really shows in Russia's performance in this war. Like instead of actual military vehicles, soldiers are recieving old bread loafs and other civilian vehicles.
No and not really.
The term "patheticness" describes me very well.
Do remember that Radio Free Europe/ Radio Liberty was created by Langley.
Nonetheless, I am not surprised. My beloved Putin and his friends loves their fleet of luxury cars.
Remember, Trump thrown Columbia’s academic freedom and freedom of speech under the bus to please this dude.
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The Russian Armed Forces have committed mass crimes such as Bucha and pulled an Operation Babylift.
But this isn’t what I am referring to, Russia was kicked out of G8 because of 2014 annexation of Crimea which in my opinion, wasn’t really much of a crime and the sanctions against them is not for these specific crimes but for the 2022 invasion as a whole which isn’t really worst than say America’s invasion of Iraq, in fact less so if you compare civilian casualties in both.
Should US have been sanctioned because of Abu Ghraib? No? So why should Russia?