I would say he was pleased as their politics align.Could have perhaps just said congrats and left it at that?
Zelensky hails Argentina's 'new beginning' at Milei inauguration
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday congratulated Argentina's new President Javier Milei while attending an inauguration ceremony in Buenos Aires, where he met with several South American…www.france24.com
There can't be many state leaders who would boycott his inauguration ( Lula in Brazil, poss South Africa?) . Putin sent his congrats btw .
Who pays the piper calls the tune
You are absolutely right
The figures for Ukraine are far too high early on to be casualty figures.
athenalab.org
Something like Ukraine exports were given priority as part of the war support effort and it undercut Polish famers
Also in Slovakia and Hungary. I think it original intention was that it went through Poland and those countries to other economies outside of the EU but the supplies were bought up by those inside the EU seeking to make a profit . Its created one of the objections to Ukraine joining the EU although I expect the EU will cobble together a compromise aided by some imaginative accountancy re budgets for those affected.
Russia might be down to a third of their original tanks.
Russia Might Be Running Out Of Tanks
The big question—one that no outside analyst definitively has answered—is how many tanks Uralvagonzavod can build, and how tanks the other plants can repair.www.forbes.com
That's probably still more tanks than the RotW minus China have.
It's when you look at this kind of behaviour, and then learn that the Russian military employs troops to sit in the third wave, and shoot any retreating soldiers ("blocking forces", a job that NKVD used to do in Stalin's time), that you start to realise the source of this lunacy.
and they might start running out in 2 or 3 years. according to your article. there's a lot of maybe's and might's in that piece
russia's been taking tanks out of storage for some time ... I recall some images being posted last year on the subject
the bigger issue might be a dearth of trained tank crews. don't suppose you can magic them up just like that.
Where would we be without a healthy bit of speculation?
Possibly an unlikely source of insight into Russian military production.wiki on forbes said:
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There was a fair amount of reportage early on to the effect that a lot of the kit in storage a) hadn't been stored properly (eg outside, rather than in temperature-controlled environments), and b) much had been stripped of parts that were resold.
I tend to take anything said by David Axe with a big pinch of salt. Almost everything he writes for Forbes is a puff piece for how wonderful Western tanks are.
