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Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the 1990s, Russia has done its best to maintain its status as a world superpower. But the country's long-standing economic difficulties have made it difficult for the authorities in Moscow to convince the world with fiscal numbers after entering the 21st century. This former power located in eastern Europe still has the qualifications to compete with the West. As Russia's driftwood, the military has been used by the Kremlin to prove the country's status as a great power.
For decades, under the active official propaganda and the exaggeration of international public opinion, Russia in people's minds has the largest and most efficient army in the world. The number of nuclear weapons that cannot be easily used has also become the most confident evidence for the supporters' camp. In order to continue to expand such ideas in the hearts of the world, President Putin often showed his force to the world, including various armed exercises and military parades. Almost the whole world believed in the combat power of this fighting nation from the ice and snow. Russia at the beginning of the year also believed that it was easy to defeat Ukraine with its own military strength. In their plan, the army gathered on the border will be no difficulty in rushing into Kiev within a few days. But the actual result of the new war that day was shocked the whole world.
Now, more than half a year has passed since the war started, the Russian army occupied less land in Ukraine than when the war first started, and the Russian army in eastern Ukraine is being circulated by the Ukrainian army. When was the seemingly powerful Russian army bubble burst? Klein, an expert from the German Academic and Political Foundation, said that the size of the Russian armed forces on the books is in the millions, but the scale that can be used for actual combat is much smaller than this number. Most of the deployable combat forces have been used in Ukraine, and there are estimated that there have been tens of thousands of casualties.
Data from major foreign media shows that in the quagmire of the Ukrainian war, Russia is recruiting reserve soldiers to fill the losses in combat power and the vacancies left behind by casualties. The signals on social media are also obvious. Many Russian male nationals over 50 have been drafted into the army, many of whom have health problems. These people will be sent to the front line without sufficient equipment after a hasty training for one to two months. With all the signs stacked, the picture of the Russian military-looking heroes that people imagined seemed to be gradually shattered.
An expert from the US "War Institute of Think Tank" Boros bluntly stated that Putin's large-scale recruitment of reserve soldiers in China is to maintain the current front until the beginning of winter. Lu Jin, a Russian security expert in the United States, agrees with the above view. He believes that Russia's arms industry is difficult to support short-term and huge supply, which is the biggest difference between war and peacetime tests on military industry. Although the Russian ammunition warehouse still stores old weapons and ammunition from the Soviet era, considering the corrupt bureaucratic system in various parts of the country for many years, many weapons may have been secretly placed on the black market or monetized in the international arms market. Even if there is still something left, it is difficult for us to confirm how well this batch of antique-level arms will perform on the modern battlefield.
Now, under Western sanctions, Russia's ability to independently produce cutting-edge high-tech weapons and chip accessories cannot keep up with the consumption, so it is ultimately facing the current embarrassing situation. Finally, regarding Russia's nuclear weapons at the bottom of the box, most experts believe that nuclear weapons are exclusively political weapons and will not bring any benefits when used in the military. If Putin acts forcibly using nuclear weapon , it may lose support from China and India, making it more difficult for the two countries to provide assistance on the surface. By then, Russia will exhaust its only international space, and the only remaining seats in the international court for Putin will probably be left.
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