Russia is moving too slowly to actually win in Ukraine .

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/01/26/ukraine-aims-to-build-7-million-drones-in-2026-70-times-more-than-the-us/

https://aviationweek.com/defense/supply-chain/ukraine-eyes-drone-production-topping-7-million-units

https://www.justsecurity.org/138164/ukraine-drone-superpower/

https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/millions-of-drones-a-year-ukraine-unveils-1769428777.html

Hope this helps

I'm not special my dude. Just a regular lad who enjoys D2 still.
But ty, I admit, I do like the extra attention

China enjoys Russia very much, I'm sure.
A nice vessel state in its cocoon developing day by day.

Sooner than later the eastern territories that were taken by the Russian empire during the century of humiliation described as unequal treaties are finding its way back. Already the Chinese joke about the Russians and look at them as savages.

BRICKS and other nations deal with Russia for 1 particular reason.
Realpolitik. Not the outdated and overly idealistic value-based politics of the EU.
What's in there for me (as in my country) is a responsible way of a country's leader advocating for the needs of their respective citizens. Or elites in most cases

Russia is not doing that. My Russian friends are extremely devastated and in total despair. The country used to be respected for its scientists and artists.
Now they're going back to feudalism.
Very sad

This post was edited by Sankturio on Jul 2 2026 11:16am

Thesnipa aims to make $100,000,000 this year.

in all seriousness they made something like 4 million in 2025, and 2 million in 2024. So it's no infeasible they could ramp up production again and hit their target. But that's a LOT of raw materials.

and on topic i think the Ukraine war at it's closure will usher in a new era of global politics similar to the era of nuclear proliferation. Where nations rich in drone defense will become essentially un-invade-able just like nations that got nukes were left untouched while nuclear nations would fight proxy wars. Im not sure if that's good or bad overall, but im sure that it doesnt really change the US's safety, as we can easily shift from making F35s to making more drones. It's bad for places that can't afford millions of drones, they're even more of sitting ducks than they were. Likewise the idea of nations like Somalia getting their hands on hundreds of thousands of drones is terrifying.

@bold

When the West started to sanction Russia there were many experts that warned that Russia would be driven into China's camp which makes perfect sense, they literally had no choice.

Quick refresher they were cut from the banking system, all central bank assets frozen, literally tens of thousands of sanctions all together.

What did you expect, that they wouldn't pivot to other countries and just roll over for you?

Go

This post was edited by Djunior on Jul 2 2026 11:36am

U make it sound like they're the victim when clearly they're and have been the aggressor

Complete and utter dodge, lol

Try again

Did the Westen sanctions cause Russia to pivot to China yes or no

Rhetorical question isn't it?

Of course it did. If you are running out of options - you gotta deal with what you have left.

But let me explain it to you differently.

If you decide to fart in a public place (aggressor) and you accidentally foul yourself (overestimate your ability) - you cannot blame the bystanders for being terrible people when clearly YOU decided to let it rip.

The victim blaming is outrageous - but looking around at jsp - the propaganda seems to be working well!
And I know you are trying very hard to keep it that way.

But everyone else can clearly see those shit-stained pants. So it's clearly an uphill battle for you.
I'm quite curious when the time comes you're running out of energy

This post was edited by Sankturio on Jul 2 2026 12:17pm

Its not rhetorical because it wasn't an inevitability and was our unforced error. Obama and mostly Biden aligned Russia and China and even got other countries like India to all set aside their mutual tensions and support each other against western color revolutions and nato expansion. Obama had the option to just let Ukraine get patched back up by Russia but instead purposefully opened it as an extra front during the Syrian war to try to overextend Russia, throwing our passive weight behind the Ukrainian revolutionaries. Nevermind that they were actual Nazis, and still are. And it wasn't until Biden that it become a hot war and he led the US to get the worst of both worlds by refusing to back Ukraine with the necessary direct military intervention that would preclude a Russian invasion- telling Putin in public we would not stop him- and then shovel enough arms, little green men and mercenaries into the conflict as needed to try to bleed out Russia. And it was when Biden engaged in overt financial warfare by freezing Russian assets and impeding naval trade that instead of just isolating Russia we got them in bed with the rest of the world. At no point was any of this a necessary step by us. We went to other sovereign powers and threatened them with demands to stop trading with Russia, and instead they rebuked us and did it anyway, ending the hegemony of the petrodollar

In a sensible world where we actually cared about our national interests instead of being led around by zealots and ultranationalists at the highest levels like Eric Ciaramella, we had more reason to cozy up to Russia and end the cold war hostilities so we could mutually oppose China. You know, like Obama was originally trying to do. The explicit foreign policy that we saw in the debate against Mitt Romney. And now its somehow absolutely verbotten and forgotten alike

Man you're trying hard to spin this. But you fail, we can all see that I'm limiting myself to the cold hard facts and I asked you a very simple question. There's no victim blaming at all like where in my post am I victim blaming.

Apparently my post hurt your feelings once again which is sad because it proves it's impossible to even engage in meaningful debate with people like you.

It's clear how you feel about the fact that China and Russia have improved their relations but guess what it's your own fault, the massive sanctions that were going to cripple Russia backfired and they've pivoted to China and a bunch of other (BRICKS) countries.

The West then tried to pressure China and all other countries but they were unimpressed like I already made clear to you a few posts back.

Basically they're telling you to take your rainbow flag and stick it up your wazoo. Sorry lad