This superiority comes from Russia’s much better organized military industrial complex (which can actually outproduce the entire West) and its almost unlimited natural resources.
Is it an MIC in Russia? Or do they retain state ownership of any of it? I am not familiar with who owns their weapons production and so on.
That’s a good question. The Russian Federation’s military industrial complex is primarily state-owned and state-directed. Note, by “military industrial complex” I am referring to Russia’s military related manufacturing companies collectively. As a socialist, I certainly believe that the primary role of state-ownership of these companies makes their production significantly more efficient than, say, the United States’ bloated and corrupt, totally private military industrial complex that endlessly fleeces US taxpayers.
When analyzing the sum of direct and indirect state-owned shares, the state’s ownership in the nuclear power industry, airports, diamond mining, and the military-industrial complex exceeded 70% without accounting for industries represented by a small number of companies in the sample. Therefore, we identified industries with significant state ownership and significant dispersion among its stakes.
https://rujec.org/article/27978/ 2017 published in the Russian Journal of Economics
Huh that’s a weird way to phrase it.
It’s not a “military-industrial complex” if there isn’t a bunch of profiteers actively trying to seek war to fill their pockets is there? At least that was my understanding of the phrase, perhaps I have been using it incorrectly this whole time and just lucked out in fitting my conversations anyway.
Anyway that’s a relatively good number to have.
