Who wins, a group of nomadic tribesman or Russia’s most elite soldiers fully kitted out with all modern gear and with air support?

Russia just really isn’t good at war. The only time they can have anything resembling success is when they have extreme overwhelming firepower and even then they will suffer catastrophic casualties and barely win.

People used to write about the greatness of the Russian military with a straight face. They wrote actual books about this. They made studying the Russian military their whole career and they never once realized how shit Russia is at literally everything. It is amazing to consider

Actual, like, phds. Like, full time academic work. Speaking at conventions. Speaking with decision makers in government. And they somehow missed that Russia sucks at everything. How? Russia sucking is like the one thing Russia does well.