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THE UKRAINE WAR
DW NEWS REPORTING ... JUNE 9TH 2022 How long can Russia afford the war? | DW News Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3T9-8yR1nU Peter Burgess COMMENTARY The economic analysis by Frank Ledwidge is rather fast moving and confusing ... and therefore somewhat disappointing. My own understanding of the cost of war is rather different. My thinking on this subject is guided by my knowledge of technology and my knowledge of cost accounting. Countries like the USA and the Russian Federation spend a lot of money every year on military equipment and munitions. This is costly, and much of this material will become obsolete over time. Equipment may have a useful life 20 years ... so using the old equipment in a war setting does not add significant cost to the military budget. Somewhat the same argument can be applied to the munitions ... except that the effectiveness of modern smart munitions is so much better than the older munitions that they must be used if the battles / war is to be won. Consuming (using) the old dumb munitions does not have an incremental cost as they should be replaced by smart munitions anyway. Ukraine, in contrast, has a rather modest inventory of equipment and munitions and all of this that is available is being deployed and used. More of this is being delivered to Ukraine from Western allies. Some of this is older materials that have to be replaced anyway, but more and more is modern and has a real cost to some party. It is not at all clear who (which country) will bear the cost of all of this when these equipment and munitions are used and consumed or detroyed. The true cost of all of this depends on many factors ... the DW discussion has some detail and becomes rather confusing but some of the takeaway can be considered wrong. DW associates an amount of 800 million Euros as the cost to Russia of sinking of the flagship of the Black Sea Russian Navy Moskva Peter Burgess | ||
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How long can Russia afford the war? | DW News
Jun 9, 2022 DW News ... DW is a German public broadcast service. Wikipedia 3.97M subscribers ... 82,983 views The war in Ukraine is well into its fourth month - with no sign of ending. Can Russia keep up its offensive? War is expensive, beyond the death and destruction - the costs of mounting a military campaign are massive. Tanks, missiles, fuel - not to mention feeding an army - it's believed Russia's spending 900 million euros a day in Ukraine.
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