• 420blazeit69 [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    The funniest part of this comment is the idea that Russia will get so desperate for troops that they’ll be unable to operate mines

    Soviet industrial capacity greatly increased over the course of WWII

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, but that was the Soviets. These are capitalists. Capitalists suck at war economics and I’m not even sure it’s plausible under modern finance capitalism. I agree they’re not likely to run out of troops any time soon, but I don’t think we’re likely to see economic gains like WWII.