Putin has two central issues: finding manpower for what used to exist in Russia, and having the economic strength to rebuild tanks, artillery, and combat equipment.
For the most part, if you believe the past four decades of Russian census-taking was wildly inaccurate.....the next fifty years of Russian manpower will be utterly crap, and depend a great deal on attracting non-Russians to come in and replace the dead.
But the equipment problem becomes a comedy of sorts.
Mixed into the requirements....you have to figure that hundreds of guys want to be on the receiving end....taking 30-percent of the cost of each tank or helicopter....as their profit. Some might be hoping for 50-percent.
So I expect the first decade to be a challenge....where dozens of folks are dragged in for execution...on profit-taking, and various programs are halted because so many took bribes/extra-profits.
This era? Well....likely to be forty-plus years and have Putin's name attached to a great degree.
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