Vladimir Putin recently won reelection as Russia’s president by a wide margin, making him the country’s longest serving ruler since Josef Stalin. Both men have also uniquely presided over their country’s largest-scale conflicts, throwing support to the argument that economic sanctions placed on countries during war only serve to entrench rather than dislodge their leaders. But the long-term sustainability of a war-style command economy remains less clear, with notable examples of North Korea and arguably the Soviet Union itself raising real concerns of how people can fall behind over time without a relaxing of the central authority. Tonight, we are rejoined by Lance, our frequent military expert and contributor to help us unravel some of the mystery of the military and economic machinations of the Putin regime and how it compares to other stratagems in America and around the world.
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with Adam Smith and Hans Lander
Lance’s new book: Caesar Bellator – https://www.amazon.com/dp/1957583193
Myth of the 20th Century – Episode 277 – Russia at War – Command Economy
— References —
- FM100-2-1 The Soviet Army Operations and Tactics, US Army (1984) – https://archive.org/details/fm100-2-1/mode/1up
- The Fall and Rise of Russian Electronic Warfare, Clark (2022) – https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-fall-and-rise-of-russian-electronic-warfare
- Ukraine loses 16 US-made armored vehicles, group says, but Kyiv’s forces still gain territory, CNN (2023) – https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/russia-ukraine-war-news-06-12-23/h_677ac2bebb1d8324ffd538ac5124876e
- Putin’s war fired up Russia’s economy and beat sanctions – but big problems lie ahead, Summa Money (2024) – https://summamoney.com/investing/the-daily/putins-war-fired-up-russias-economy-and-beat-sanctions-but-big-problems-lie-ahead/
- War against Ukraine to cost Russia $1.3 trillion in lost growth – Secretary Austin, The New Voice of Ukraine (2024) – https://ca.news.yahoo.com/war-against-ukraine-cost-russia-183000980.html
- Exclusive: Russia producing three times more artillery shells than US and Europe for Ukraine, CNN (2024) – https://www.wral.com/story/exclusive-russia-producing-three-times-more-artillery-shells-than-us-and-europe-for-ukraine/21322737/
- Economic impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_impact_of_the_Russian_invasion_of_Ukraine
Myth of the 20th Century 
Hank seemed a little cranky in this episode.
Good stuff nonetheless. I appreciate you guys continuing to provide us with thoughtful content. I like lance as a guest.
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*meant to say Adam
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The T-80 is the turbine powered Russian tank. The T-90 reverted back to diesel power. Perhaps because the T-80 had the same profligate fuel consumption as the Abrams; 4 gallons per mile cross-country.
The protection certainly does seems better on the Western tanks. There is drone footage of an M1 being taken out by a Russian suicide drone, and the tank did burn, but it took while before the ammo storage blew and that bought time for 3 of the 4 crewmen to get out before it went up. Another video showed Russian soldiers inspecting another knocked out M1. It was pretty beaten up and it appeared that the drivetrain was destroyed, but the crew cabin interior seemed completely intact, so that the crew must have gotten away safely.
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