Western riches have only made each shell cost a mountain of cash. But exactly none of this was obvious two years ago, even to NATO - in fact to this day there are bewildered NATO leaders still using the enormous disparity in GDP as a talking point in their favor.

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Despite this the Russians deliberately set out to fight an industrial war against the combined might of the West.

...the Russian government - in 2022 - clearly understood NATO's military-industrial capabilities far better than NATO itself did, to such a high degree of confidence that someone as risk-averse as Vladimir Putin would stake war strategy and to a very real extent the survival of the Russian state on that analysis.

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