russia pros: part of industry safe in the eastern side more pop partial china and iran support (they need to buy stuff at 3 times market price from them) korea giving them supplies and extra bodies russia cons: sanctions. locomotives need ball bearings only produced in europe,no ball bearing means no trains,no trains in a nation where most logistics are train based means no supplies ukraine drones. can hit most of their oil (and other hidrocarbons) infrastructure,crippling their resource extraction (wich they need to buy weapons) loss of mechanized. they have lost 9k tanks,they had 12k,they have 1 maybe 2 years of tanks before they rely on their 100's produced anually,wich just isnt enough ukraine pros: industry base partially safe: less territory means more concentration of air defenses,as well american and europe factories and mil industry working for them western intel. if a russia commander is shitting the ukranians will know it western deniable assets. sure as hell spec ops been down there increasing industry base. no sanctions and multiple deals about building factories for military goods a somewhat steady flow of military gear ukraine cons: less population less political capital. they rely both on the local populace will and foreign aid foreign partners de-scalation means aids gets lot of restrictions russia missiles and drones hitting energy infrastructure
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