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>This is the reason Putin won't end the war until they achieve every political and military goal regarding ukraine, either on the field or on the negotiating table.
Yeah.
It has been pretty obvious ever since the early negotiations got sabotaged.

Any person with room temp IQ or above knows that you can't live above your means forever, and that you can't base an entire strategy around resources you don't possess.
But the western leaders don't see this, they think that throwing GDP at a problem will magically spawn real goods and factories... seemingly unaware that industry needs raw materials, energy and a skilled workforce.
And if GDP isn't enough, they will just borrow money and throw that at the problem.

The Russians, and Chinese, must be looking at this and be dumbfounded.
The western powers, with insufficient energy resources, a chronic lack of raw materials and with an unskilled workforce are not in a position to expand, let alone match, Russias military industrial output.
Yet they huff and they puff and promise to deliver more than they can produce...
And when reality hits them and the weapons haven't magically materialized, they go to the banks, get more money printed, throw it around them everywhere...
And all that happens is that the weapons and shells got more expensive.

A joke is supposed to be funny, but the west is just sad and pathetic.
Naturally, the Russians will drag this out as it means the west will destroy itself.
All they have to do is avoid nuclear war.