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The thing with fortification lines is that projects like the Maginot Line took eleven years to build for a relatively wealthy, industrial, non-civil war wrought country like France. If we excused the depth of the line itself, the French built it at 4-5 miles a day over the span of those eleven years for the 943 miles. Geography may be different where you're situated, but the reality of Russia is different with borders less than static.

And possessing oil fields and refineries doesn't really imply automatic security in wealth. Simply having it doesn't mean you get the wealth-creation of someone like the Arabs or any large oil-carrying nation. Not only would oil and gas be cheap, but local instability means either no one would want to gamble their investment and put money into the area to develop or maintain those fields until the situation stabilizes, but because other groups may and will need fuel oil and gas that they would also be raiding those locations to either knock them out and deprive you, or seize them and enrich themselves. Places where there is conflict does not mean that there'd be a consistent workforce in the area; either working skeleton hours or abandoning the area all together.
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Point well taken I’m changing my app so in stead the land is doted with small earth forts which have a small amount of men and horses. 

Also I understand that the oil and gas would make my nation rich. I also understand that other rebels may sabotage the fields or try to steal from them. However they are so far west that this would be a challenge for them if they come from inland. But I do think that raids would happen a lot from the coast. Also I completely agree that getting enough people to man them would be a struggle.

Thanks for the feedback and I’m working out the changes in my app.