It’s a good thing COMAC is a new contender for commerical aerospace- and Russia certainly has the means, even if it’ll have to rebuild and reinvigorate it a fair bit, to produce its own passenger aircraft as well.

All you have here is WaPo drivel and speculation, and if you believe them about anything- much less anything regarding Russia, Palestine, China, etc… you’re a lost cause. This is basically on the same level as “Russians will have to resort to salvaging chips from their washing machines” nonsense- do you think that Russia, an industrialized nation whose legacy forms one half of the technological development of the cold war, is incapable of basic maintenance and repairs for their aircraft without western Aryan “benevolence?”

Anyways, cheers to the UK no longer making steel. In a perfect world, perfidious Albion would never create steel again, not for a thousand years; considering what they have always done with any industrial capacity that came about on their damnable island, it is only fitting.

You should learn one day very soon to not trust anything the Washington Post says about anything, particularly enemies of the USA, outright. You don’t even need to read and critically break down these rags anymore. Ditto with every major new media, Wikipedia, NYT, the Guardian, they are no better than Epoch Times or Fox News at this stage of the collapse.

Have you even heard of the Boeing 737? There’s an entire wikipedia entry just on one model https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_the_Boeing_737

I like how you have to resort to future casting from a WaPo article as opposed to just leaving the content of that propaganda rag to stand on it’s own though. Also, is your point that the West is engaged in collective punishment of civilians through sanctions? Because as the article you referenced says.

“Of course sanctions affect flight safety,” said Russian aviation analyst Andrei Menshenin in an interview. “They can’t not affect it.”

It’s really shocking how your reasoning works. The USA, the country with the unilateral power to collectively punish nearly 80% of the world’s human population can’t produce healthy aircraft. Meanwhile, the civilian population of Russia purchases those planes on false USian promises of quality, and then the USA enacts collective punishment on those civilians by denying them the ability to buy parts for the US made aircraft which are made like garbage, and you think that’s evidence that Russia is not doing well? You even put it up against literally the ability to make steel in one of the world’s two dominant historical steel centers (Germany is the other one).

You’re a hoot.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DkuKnYdtW9w

@ 5:30 mark. Hard data, and not anecdotes. The EU as a whole is cannibalizing itself from allowing the Build back better act to poach European companies to ditching cheap Russian fuel.

For the rest of the world, it’s not difficult to keep the planes in the air, and it’s a huge deal when one suffers a malfunction.

You mean how like every week another American fighter jet falls from the sky?