Moscow War Machine ‘Would Look Like Garbage’ Without China, US Experts Say

https://www.kyivpost.com/post/62858

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  1. Snippet from this article:
    WASHINGTON DC – Russia’s war machine in Ukraine, now in its fourth year, is surviving on a precarious lifeline of components and funds provided by a controversial alliance with Beijing, Tehran, and Pyongyang. If that support dried up, the prognosis is dire, with Atlantic Council experts’ assessment being brutally blunt: Russia’s military effort would look like “garbage.”

    This stark geopolitical reality was the focus of an event hosted by the Washington-based think tank’s Eurasia Center on Thursday, which launched a new report, “The CRINK: Inside the new bloc supporting Russia’s war against Ukraine.”

  2. I mean, the Moscow war machine has ALWAYS been reliant on foreign powers to be strong.

    During ww2, the US supplied 54% of ALL ammo used by the USSR, almost 57% of aviation fuel, and all of their trucks.

  3. I mean the drones only, account for more than 50% of strikes, and without China and Iran they couldn’t build them. Without drones their strike force goes down at least 25%, that would level the field substantially as far as strikes go.

  4. I mean, would Ukraine fare any better without China in the picture? Europe is reliant on China for freaking nitrocellulose (a highly flammable material made from cotton).

    “Investors pointed to the rising demand to Europe, which has been struggling to deliver weapons to Ukraine, with nitrocellulose a key input for making propellant powder used in firearms and artillery- a characteristic that gives the compound its alternative name of “guncotton”.”

    [https://finance.yahoo.com/news/could-china-strangle-europes-weapons-093000694.html](https://finance.yahoo.com/news/could-china-strangle-europes-weapons-093000694.html)

  5. China is basically the backbone of the authoritarian bloc, providing food, energy, manufacturing tools, military equipment, censorship tools and buying up sanctioned products. It claims it is rising peacefully but in practice the key enabler of oppression, atrocity and invasions in the world.

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