Ukraine struck an Iranian commercial vessel, killing at least one sailor and wounding several others. The ship, laden with steel, was sailing from Russia’s Astrakhan Port to Iran’s Anzali Port when it was hit.
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I think this is okay here. Mod please advise.
Crosspost from https://lemmygrad.ml/post/12341161
Depends what you think “sustainable” means. Nobody ever think they can wage infinite wars (except maybe Americans who don’t have any experience of actually dying in them in numbers) but so far it’s been sustainable and barred some unexpected development like US nuking Russia it will be sustainable for as long as it would need to be to defeat Ukraine. About the engineers that’s the neat part of country having functional education system (again unlike USA and Ukraine), unless they are nuked they won’t lose that many of them in the war that it will be impossible to replace them. Russia is also not on the really war economy too.
Again, there was no mobilisation in Russia while Ukraine do massive manhunts on the streets.
After the war, Russia will need highly skilled manpower to surpass or catch the Western world technologically. As I know, dozens of them left the country and are currently living in Europe or the USA
It would probably be quite easy considering how west only basically ride on accumulation and future of their research looks pretty bleak, militarily tech they have is already behind Russia as evidenced by Russia beating everything they throw at it. Those who left are small minority of libs from places like Moscow or Petersburg plus i imagine rabid western russophobia will sooner or later make them go back, just as Chinese scientists are getting back to China.