2/23/2024 0 Comments Military tanks for sale in russia![]() ![]() Is America’s China Policy Too Hawkish? Byīut it was also around this time that Russia began expanding its role as an exporter of choice for revisionist and rogue leaders, such as Hugo Chávez in Venezuela and Bashar al-Assad in Syria. Flush with oil and gas revenues, former Soviet republics Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan began stocking up on Russian weapons and weapons systems, including battle tanks, attack helicopters, and both surface-to-air and anti-tank missiles. Russia’s early-21st century arms boom was fueled by scaled-up purchases from China, India, and Algeria-Russia’s three biggest export markets-as well as expansion into “new” markets in the former Soviet Union. Russia is now more dependent on arms sales to those two nations than any time since 2003-but at much smaller export volumes, and with both India and China continuing to develop their own import-competing arms industries. Perhaps most importantly, the decline in arms sales signals Moscow’s increasing dependence on-and subordination to-the interests of India and China. ![]() With its defense industry in the doldrums, this assessment is even more true now than it was then. Writing in the Washington Post, Maria Snegovaya admonished the West to think of Russia “as an ordinary petrostate, not an extraordinary superpower” back in 2015. Already facing substantial and largely self-inflicted wounds, what do Russia’s falling arms sales portend for the country’s position in global affairs? They point to further erosion of Russia’s-and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s-international influence and increasing dependence on oil and gas exports.
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