Russia finally took action this time, and the audience in the audience would fall asleep if they didn't do it. No one expected that a conflict between Russia and Ukraine would have lasted for half a year.

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Putin Are you finally going to attack Ukraine? threw a few missiles a few days ago, and directly bombed in the power station of Kiev , and once again pulled the world's attention.

Russia's economy declined

Russia finally took action this time. If it didn't take action, the audience in the audience would fall asleep. No one expected that a conflict between Russia and Ukraine would have lasted for half a year.

Isn’t Russia known as the world’s second largest military power? Why did it turn aside in front of a small Ukraine? Some people may say that There is NATO behind Ukraine.

good led by the United States, Western countries have been constantly transporting supplies to Ukraine, and have also joined forces to encourage Russia, which can indeed bring considerable trouble to Russia.

But NATO did not send troops directly, and the supplies transported were just dropping the bucket. Under such circumstances, Russia still had no choice but to deal with Ukraine. What is going on?

Finally, it is because of insufficient economic strength. In fact, through this Russian-Ukrainian conflict, we can see that Russia's years are actually starting to decline under the appearance of calm and peaceful appearance.

Russia is known as the world's second largest military power. The nuclear weapons and other high-end weapons they own are indeed ranked high in the world, but most of these are the legacy left to him by his father, the Soviet Union.

Not to mention how many years have passed, the products and technologies have been updated many times. Even if the Soviet Union's weapons were ahead of the world for decades, they should be disrepaired after using them for a long time. No matter how well they are maintained, they cannot compare with others' new ones.

Why doesn’t Russia change its product? A large part of it is because it has no money. You should know whether a country is strong is often the economic strength of the country.

Although Russia has the highest land area in the world, anyone who sees with an area of ​​117 million square kilometers will have to stare at it, but in fact, Russia's economic strength is not even comparable to India, which cannot find two toilets in the country.

Think about the time when , the Soviet Union was still there, although the economy has always been a shortcoming, , but it has also firmly ranked among the top five in the world, and even became the world's second largest economy at its peak.

However, after the disintegration, his vitality was severely damaged. Although Russia inherited the vast majority of his legacy, it still could not stop him from going downhill. Not only did the total economic output of be low, but the growth rate was also very slow.

Putin once said this, "Give me 20 years and give you a powerful Russia" . After so many years, has it recovered?

The answer is obviously no. In the past 10 years, Russia's economic growth has been very slow, so slow that it is only about 0.9%, almost one-tenth of that of my country.

The economic growth rate of

can almost be said to be a storm. The reason why Russia has always been a powerful country by everyone is actually because of the strong style of fighting nation .

Russia, from President Putin to ordinary people, showed its ruthlessness. is as if each of them had written on their faces, "Let's be indifferent to life and death, do it if you don't accept it."

It is precisely because of this overly strong performance that many people have made a wrong judgment on Russia's true strength, and they think that Big Mao can really be equal to the United States.

But this time the conflict between Russia and Ukraine completely exposed its shortcomings. If Russia's strength is really as strong as everyone said, how could it be impossible for a small Ukraine to resolve it?

Even a few days ago Putin ordered the country to enter a state of war , which seemed to mean that Russia has been dragged into the quagmire by Ukraine, and their performance on the battlefield was really bad.

Now even if Russia wins this war, it may not be able to hold on because it takes too long to face. And the attitudes of Western countries that were afraid of Russia before may change after this time.

The war consumes extremely national economy

Why did Russia perform so badly on the battlefield of Russia and Ukraine? In fact, we have always misunderstood a problem: the strength of the military in peacetime and wartime cannot be compared at all.

Although Russia's high-end weapon is usually pulled out by train, when there is a real conflict, it seems like a deflated ball, and it is actually tripped by a small Ukraine.

actually supports a war, not how many weapons there are, but depends on the economic strength of the country. There is an old saying in China: "A cannon fires, gold is ten thousand taels." The sentence

seems a bit exaggerated, but you can tell if you just need to calculate it a little bit, ten thousand taels of gold are nothing to a modern war, and you can't afford a fourth-generation fighter, let alone those precise guided weapons .

In peacetime, military expenditure is mainly used to build weapons and equipment. At this time, the weapon level is not high and the cost of use is very low. Just carry out daily maintenance.

But it was not the case when it came to the war period. Even a rich world overlord like the United States did not have the ability to fight just by saying that. Just take his performance during the Iraq War period.

At that time, the United States consumed more than 740 billion US dollars in this battle. This is still the case when the United States has the ability to crush it. If the national strength of Iraq is a little stronger, I am afraid that the United States will spend trillions of dollars in one account.

There are many money-burning projects in the war. First of all, the manufacturing of weapons is many times higher than usual in terms of quantity and quality. The unit consumes a lot of ammunition for every attack launched by .

The amount of ammunition fired in one day during the war may not be comparable to that of a few years or even decades in peacetime, and a missile thrown is millions. I don’t know if these weapons can be hit, but the money has been spent anyway.

Secondly, the transportation of weapons also costs a lot of money. After all, it is a missile worth millions per million. You can't just find a hemp rope and drag it over.

And those aircraft and tanks are always inevitable when they go to the battlefield. The maintenance after the war is also a huge expense. The longer the front line of a war, the transportation and maintenance costs will rise sharply.

In addition to the loss of weapons and other materials, the loss of military personnel is also a huge expenditure. The country needs to provide a large pension for those soldiers who are killed or injured.

The issue of military compensation after a war may cost hundreds of billions of dollars. Adding up various expenses will cost at least one trillion yuan in a modern war.

If this is replaced with paper money, there will be 10,000 tons. Therefore, once a war breaks out after entering the industrial age, no matter how strong a country's economic strength is, it will be affected by the war.

was even directly dragged down by a war. Although the Russian-Ukrainian conflict did not break out in a particularly large firefight, and the weapons taken out by both sides were not very advanced.

But overall, this is also a huge military conflict. The number of people on both sides of the war has reached hundreds of thousands, and Russia is in the true sense here, about millions in minutes.

At this time, Russia's economy was still in a recovery period, which was not enough to support such a war. To put it bluntly, Russia's current state machine does not have the ability to release so many weapons in a short time to supply this military conflict.

The Russian army could only take one step at a time, and then wait for subsequent supplies to follow up, which caused the Russian army's offensive to be very slow.

National economy determines military strength

The continuous extension of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, in addition to the continuous interference of the United States and Western countries, the main reason is that their own economy has not kept up.

However, considering the excellent performance of the Russian army on the front line, if it can obtain industrial capacity support like China, then this war will be a slight meaning to them.

The number of Russian army members seems to be huge, but in fact, only a small number of people who can be allocated to participate in the war is because of Russia's long-term neglect of the army.

was originally limited in funding, and three more troops were required to raise, so we directly gave priority to cultivating the navy and air force. The remaining money was not enough to support the army.

In contrast, the treatment of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is much stronger. Our country has always attached great importance to the training of the army. The three armies of the navy, army and air force are treated equally, and all kinds of weapons and equipment are updated in a timely manner.

Moreover, the Chinese People's Liberation Army's mobile troops exceed 800,000 . If this "strongest combat power on the surface" is to participate in the war, it is estimated that it will be able to achieve a result in less than a week. Even if it is a larger battle, China will not reach the point where the country needs to launch a war mobilization.

In addition, the Russian army suffered a great loss in information in this conflict. Modern wars are basically information wars, which is comparable to whose information acceptance speed is faster.

Although the People's Liberation Army has been slow to update heavy mechanized equipment in recent years, our information technology has developed particularly rapidly. Our country's main focus is long-range support and strikes, and various information weapons are emerging one after another.

, such as multi-purpose drones, ground tactical missiles, etc., these weapons and equipment have reached the world's leading level. Ukraine has established an air defense system with the help of the United States, which can basically withstand the Russian army's attack.

, but it may not be able to withstand the People's Liberation Army. In addition, logistics resource preparation is also very important. As we mentioned earlier, Russia's current state machinery is difficult to build so many weapons and equipment in a short period of time.

So after the soldiers on the front line fought, they could only rest on the spot or go home, otherwise they could only perform a bare hands to catch the sword.

If the Russian army has logistics supplies such as the Chinese People's Liberation Army, they can give it a try on the front line, and the fighting nations do not need to fight so frustrated.

After all, there is a dimensional wall between the Ukrainian army and the Russian army. If Russia directly launched a full-scale war from the beginning and invested a large number of precisely guided weapons, the conflict might not have lasted for so long.

However, Russia's current economy makes it impossible for him to support this high-tech equipment. If he invests it for a long time, it will be a "big bleeding" for them to take it out once.

may even take several years to recover, so even Russia, which has the world's second largest nuclear force, cannot easily support a conflict or battle.

can support a battle only by the strength of a country's economic strength. Only in this way can we support the required investment of nuclear forces and support the cultivation and expansion of conventional military forces.

Now global economy is developing rapidly, and doing anything requires a lot of money, not to mention war, that is to burn money directly. Although Russia inherited the strong military strength of the Soviet Union, it has been going on and off in recent years.

The economic strength of the country has not been steadily increased, so the unsatisfactory manifestations in this conflict are actually understandable, but if we have such economic strength as our country, we believe that the conflict will have a result soon.

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