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Originally Posted by EvoFire
There's no limit to Europe's desire to keep sending equipment, I don't think anyone is under any kind of pretense that Ukraine will be paying back anything. Russia barely paid back the US for the lend lease agreement for WW2, Germany wasn't required to pay back anything for losing, Ukraine will be given a pass. Russia will fight with sticks and stones if they have to so expect this to continue to get dragged out. Ukraine will pay back the west with it's expertise with drone warfare and be a major manufacturing hub for it.
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It's basically a proxy war - the EU (and it's supposed to be the US) want to ensure that Russia doesn't have outsize influence in the world but they can't confront Russia directly so Ukraine is how they bleed Russia to death.
I've been very surprised that Russia's economy hasn't tanked but the WSJ has been looking into it - basically the war machine is keeping the economy afloat but there are limits to this. The EU (and the US) really can bleed Russia dry - it's just a matter of how bad Ukraine fares in the process.
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