AFAIK the government controlled Russia media like to show Pootin as Chad Sigma male gridset etc, you will find many videos where he is shown taking the happiness out of various government officials, image building onlee.
It create the best realistic optic Russia wants.
There is no way to ascertain who these people are.
The role of the army is to be prepared for war.
In that case Vietnam or Afghanistan would not have won. You have a stronger enemy you fight asymmetric warfare. Just like US has fleet aircraft carriers you cannot defeat them 1v1 so you build Kinzhal type missile.
No matter what the odds are or differential in military firepower is, you never go to war with Russia. That is something history has taught us over and over. UN is toothless as ever. NATO will not put boots on ground. Economic sanctions will be useless too since China will help them circumvent it at the cost of Russia being its sidekick especially in the post Putin days.
Russia going for war is different than china going for war . Russia is mostly self sufficient , low populous , inward oriented economy. I wonder what ll happen to world economy if china chooses war .. A 16 tr economy having the world depended on itself for various semi manufactured or raw materials ... So many MNCs that have manufacturing base there ..
But it also means that those manufacturing houses will lose all customers. Ports go boom, no import-export for many years. And trust me, US can even today hand china a drubbing. The only thing they cant do is a land invasion of china.
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