{"id":17444,"date":"2024-05-16T15:03:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asia.businessupturn.com\/?p=17444"},"modified":"2024-05-16T15:03:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T09:33:19","slug":"andrei-belousovs-rise-signals-new-russian-industrial-war-footing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/northern-asia\/russia\/andrei-belousovs-rise-signals-new-russian-industrial-war-footing\/17444\/","title":{"rendered":"Andrei Belousov\u2019s rise signals new Russian industrial war footing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"group relative pt-3.5 pb-[1.125rem] px-4 relative rounded-2xl -tracking-[0.015em] bg-[linear-gradient(to_bottom,_hsla(var(--bg-000)\/0.75)_0%,_hsla(var(--bg-000)_\/_0)_90%)] before:absolute before:inset-0 before:bg-[radial-gradient(ellipse_at_left_top,_hsla(var(--bg-000)\/0.5)_0%,_hsla(var(--bg-000)\/0.3)_60%)] before:rounded-2xl before:border-[0.5px] before:border-[hsla(var(--border-100)\/0.15)] before:shadow-[0_4px_24px_rgba(0,0,0,0.015)] before:[transition:opacity_150ms_ease-out,_transform_250ms_cubic-bezier(0.695,0.555,0.655,1.650)] before:z-0 before:data-[is-streaming=\"true\"]:opacity-0 before:data-[is-streaming=\"true\"]:scale-[0.995]\" data-is-streaming=\"false\">\n<div class=\"font-claude-message pr-4 md:pr-9 relative overflow-x-auto leading-[1.65rem] [&_pre>div]:bg-bg-300 [&_pre]:-mr-4 md:[&_pre]:-mr-9\" style=\"--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; position: relative; padding-right: 2.25rem; line-height: 1.65rem; font-family: var(--font-claude-message);\">\n<div class=\"grid grid-col-1 gap-2.5 [&_>_*]:min-w-0\" style=\"--tw-border-spacing-x: 0; --tw-border-spacing-y: 0; --tw-translate-x: 0; --tw-translate-y: 0; --tw-rotate: 0; --tw-skew-x: 0; --tw-skew-y: 0; --tw-scale-x: 1; --tw-scale-y: 1; --tw-scroll-snap-strictness: proximity; --tw-ring-offset-width: 0px; --tw-ring-offset-color: #fff; --tw-ring-offset-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-ring-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow: 0 0 #0000; --tw-shadow-colored: 0 0 #0000; gap: 0.625rem;\">\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">According to former UN weapons inspector and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter, Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s appointment of Andrei Belousov as deputy prime minister overseeing the defence industry signals a major \u201crevolution\u201d in how Moscow is approaching military manufacturing and logistics for sustained, high-intensity warfare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">Ritter, who has decades of experience analyzing and understanding Russia\u2019s military capabilities, explained that historically what ultimately wins protracted wars is the ability to fully leverage an \u201carsenal of democracy\u201d \u2013 referring to the Allied Forces\u2019 victory in World War II that was driven by the United States\u2019 unmatched ability to ramp up industrial production of tanks, aircraft, ammunition and an endless stream of military goods and supplies to overwhelm the enemy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">In Ritter\u2019s assessment, this critical capability to sustain incredibly high operational tempos during modern warfare on a massive scale is exactly what Russia is now positioning itself to achieve under Belousov\u2019s leadership. He insisted that Russia has already stepped up its defence industry into an active war footing, with Kremlin officials acknowledging they view themselves in a de facto war not just with Ukraine but with the collective economic and industrial might of the West.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">While Russia has invested significantly in revamping and expanding its arms and ammunition production capabilities over the last several years, Ritter noted that Ukraine\u2019s allies across Europe and North America are struggling mightily to provide Kyiv with sufficient heavy weaponry at any kind of sustained wartime pace.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">However, Ritter emphasized that major concerns have been raised over the United States\u2019 current military production capacities as well. A years-long bipartisan policy of military \u201cKeynesianism\u201d has geared significant portions of the U.S. arms industry more towards private profit motives and providing economic stimulus rather than meeting the needs of a major state-on-state conflict.<\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words\">With Belousov\u2019s expansive background in economics and industrial policy, his appointment signals Putin is deadly serious about Russia being able to independently sustain a full-scale industrial war footing for years to come \u2013 no matter the immense economic pressures and costs involved. By sanctioning and attempting to cut off Russia, the West may have inadvertently spurred an \u201carsenal of democracy\u201d revamp in Moscow that could tilt the scales of attritional warfare decidedly in Russia\u2019s favour over the long run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"absolute -right-1.5 sm:right-2 bottom-0\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center bg-bg-000 border-0.5 border-border-300 shadow-sm pt-3 pb-1 px-2 rounded-lg translate-y-1\/2 transition\">\n<div class=\"flex gap-0.5 -mx-1 -mt-2 text-text-400 justify-between items-stretch\">\n<div class=\"flex gap-0.5\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russian President Vladimir Putin\u2019s appointment of Andrei Belousov as deputy prime minister overseeing the defense industry signals a major \u201crevolution\u201d in how Moscow is approaching military manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":406,"featured_media":17447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10697,352,281,7078,78,10698,215,10699],"class_list":["post-17444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-russia","tag-andrei-belousov","tag-europe","tag-moscow","tag-north-america","tag-russia","tag-scott-ritter","tag-ukraine","tag-us-marine-corps"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/406"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}