Do you think you know the answer to any of these questions? I don’t see any sources.
You’d know about it if you actually followed the war in military terms.
Lol let’s see if Europe’s support will last another winter of higher energy prices. The U.S. is the big spender, anyway.
Are you European?
Countries regularly import metals, metals, from other countries. That’s because whether to import is a business decision based on price, not whether you have domestic access to an item.
So you’re saying that it’s cheaper for Russia to import from China than keeping production inside? How is that supposed to work?
It is utterly preposterous to believe Russia is lacking workers. Soviet industrial capacity exploded during WWII, a far larger and more destructive war.
That was in a day and age where people still had children, and it’s no wonder it exploded it was pretty much at zero during Tsar times.
Have Russian press reporting about the military shortfall, and that’s before the war started, not counting the sky-high incurred losses. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Russia#/media/File:Russia_Population_Pyramid.svg.