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> They can't build military tech because of sanctions.

Russia is ahead of the west both in ballistics & air defense using mostly off the shelf consumer chips that are very easy to smuggle in via 3rd parties.

> Starting to use 1950s and 1960s tanks.

Retrofitted tanks that get the job done. These are being sent to the rear for policing (occupying) operations as well as given to the Donbas separatists.

> Renault gave away 68% of car manufacturer Avtovaz to the state

Pretty sure that was on Renaults own volition. The Chinese are more than glad to take up the slack.

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> Russia is ahead of the west both in ballistics & air defense

This is an absolutely absurd claim. I will say that it is flat-out FALSE.

Well, the US President and Pentagon disagree with you. As do the receiving ends of those weopons systems.

Citations please!

Google it. Russians might be Orcs, but they can math.

So this is a troll account. Got it.

His recent posts are all in war threads pumping up Russia while smugly mocking Westerners and the US/EU.

Probably not a troll, but a true believer. As a Russian/American following this sick war with abject horror, it really depresses me...

It's not pumping up Russia to be honest about the realities of the geopolitical and war situation. And the failures and lack of long term thinking in the current crop of western leadership. And yeah, it's a sick war. They all are.

If I had you pegged wrong, then I apologize. But even the slightest whiff of Russian propaganda makes me see red. It has eaten away at the minds of my parents' and grandparents' generation, and a number of my slavic friends are suffering greatly because they don't know how to deprogram their loved ones. Just obvious, blatant fascism that's being repulsively consumed and regurgitated by the Russian media and population in a grotesque feedback loop. All an engineered frenzy by some deplorable propagandists high up in the Russian government. And now I see it spreading among contrarians in the Western world, too.

That's the scent I get from these comments. The same lies that I've been hearing on Russian TV for years and years. "Sanctions? Russia's doing better than ever! Failures? The entire war has been going exactly as planned! Technology? We have some of the most advanced military tech in the world! Ukraine? It was never a country to begin with!"

So anyone you disagree with is a troll? Got it.

Anyways:

- https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/pentagon-demurs-biden-confir...

- https://missilethreat.csis.org/system/russian-air-defense/

- https://georgetownsecuritystudiesreview.org/2019/06/26/the-r...

To be clear, these links do not not support the specific claims being made by the poster (although being related).

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