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Sure and in the interim, they can lose $13,000,000 missile systems, $20 million jets and divisions of tanks.

I've yet to see sources on those alleged multiple Russian aircraft losses. There is only 1 that I think has been proven and it happened today.

What about the imperial Tie fighter they lost on the highway? https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1499874233085792263?s...

I seem to remember a $120 million F35 falling into the South China Sea a couple of weeks back. Easy come, easy go.

They just recovered it:

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/navy-recovers-stealth-35-sou...

Russia has a tiny economy so yea, losing lots of stuff is very expensive for them.

The Russians have always been more tolerant of military losses, both equipment and people.

By all accounts, those are obsolete. Putin might have needed to "use them up" in order to get his people on board for replacing them.

Franklin Roosevelt had the Navy's obsolete battleships all parked in Pearl Harbor when war was threatening in the Pacific. The all-important aircraft carriers were far away. Everyone in the US Navy understood how a successful attack would run, because it had been rehearsed twice already by the Navy itself.

Interesting, never heard this take before.

“Obsolete” is about all the Russian defense industry can produce. Russia’s defense industry has struggled to produce modern fighters and equipment. Russia touted the new Su-57 fighter and T-14 Armata tank but have hardly delivered any. Most of what their defense industry can build is upgraded versions of Soviet-designed fighters and armor

so true - here is one of their obsolete drones throwing a firecracker:

https://twitter.com/politblogme/status/1499868149776322563?s...

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