Russian forces cross Ukrainian border 22.02.2022 morning

[catgeorge]

Oil has no future, even China is ruling oil out. It is last monents for Russia to realize oil dollars. The question is: using for better life standards or to war. Russia could go on by selling fertilizes, it would be nice.

Oil has a massive future and its not only the natural resource it has. Neon and Palladium is required to manufacture microchips and Russia is the largest producer of this resource among many other critical metals. Not to mention rare earths like neodymium and praseodymium that are critical metals for todays armaments

[Lemminkäinen]

Oil has a massive future and its not only the natural resource it has. Neon and Palladium is required to manufacture microchips and Russia is the largest producer of this resource among many other critical metals. Not to mention rare earths like neodymium and praseodymium that are critical metals for todays armaments

Idk, but I recall that neodymium and tungsten were imported from China when I was working at a Finnish lamp factory. I recall also that China has been mentioned to be the largest exporter of rare earth metals. Sweden and Finland belong to the biggest owners of lithium deposits

[catgeorge]

Idk, but I recall that neodymium and tungsten were imported from China when I was working at a Finnish lamp factory. I recall also that China has been mentioned to be the largest exporter of rare earth metals. Sweden and Finland belong to the biggest owners of lithium deposits

Yes, China is the largest Downstream producer and likely the largest deposits. Russia and Brazil are in the top three of identifiable and unmined rare earth deposits. At the end of the day - Russia has no problems keeping its army in good order in a protracted war of attrition.

[Jehan]

No country in the world has the natural resources that Russia has to keep a war going for decades.

And what they gonna do? Throw rare earth metal on ukrainian trench?
Russia is curently sending WWII era tanks to the frontline. They have have massive stockpile of ammo and materials from the soviet and they are loosing it.

[catgeorge]

And what they gonna do? Throw rare earth metal on ukrainian trench?
Russia is curently sending WWII era tanks to the frontline. They have have massive stockpile of ammo and materials from the soviet and they are loosing it.

No one can beat Russia in a war of attrition. They have the resources they have ethnic cohesion, they have the military traditions they have the culture. They believe god is on their side and god has given them the worlds resources to protect what Europeans truly believe in.

[SilverKnight]

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[Hektor12]

[SilverKnight]

Russian air defense for the first time intercepted a GLSDB guided missile — Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation

[luc2112]

No country in the world has the natural resources that Russia has to keep a war going for decades.

Russia has lost half of the territory conquered at the beginning of the conflict, has burned half of its active tanks and its offensives are being thwarted.
The Euro zone is the second world power and the USA is the 1st, the West will not stop sending weapons to Ukraine, but do you still think that Russia (9th economy) will win the war? Yes, Russia has a good tradition in equipment manufacturing, however, it is terrible in combat.

[catgeorge]

Russia has lost half of the territory conquered at the beginning of the conflict, has burned half of its active tanks and its offensives are being thwarted.
The Euro zone is the second world power and the USA is the 1st, the West will not stop sending weapons to Ukraine, but do you still think that Russia (9th economy) will win the war? Yes, Russia has a good tradition in equipment manufacturing, however, it is terrible in combat.

Yes, according to BBC.