And also defeating Western-trained armies.This is the only thing that the Russian military is good at these days... photo ops.
No contest with Georgia there. Their training has barely begun and their equipments have yet to catch up with their training.And also defeating Western-trained armies.
The PLA is extremely overrated and the Russian Army is extremely underrated. Many people think Russia is still stuck in the 90s, when their Army could barely maintain control over their own territory in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.No contest with Georgia there. Their training has barely begun and their equipments have yet to catch up with their training.
But the Russian military is now only a shadow of its former self. Corruption, outdated equipments, outdeated tactics, demoralization accross the ranks renders it incapable of waging wars except against Georgians. The Chinese will simply swat it like a fly if a war breaks out between them...
Putin may have infused a certain sense of Soviet pride in the fledgling Russian military but it is just that "a sense of." The Russian military is still out of time and out of tune except for those handful of photo op units... Russia is still stuck in Soviet propaganda.The PLA is extremely overrated and the Russian Army is extremely underrated. Many people think Russia is still stuck in the 90s, when their Army could barely maintain control over their own territory in Chechnya and the North Caucasus.
Thanks to Putin and his crew that time is gone.
An "out of time, out of tune" country would not be able to develop a stealth fighter (second country to do so) or maintain the world's second largest arms industry.Putin may have infused a certain sense of Soviet pride in the fledgling Russian military but it is just that "a sense of." The Russian military is still out of time and out of tune except for those handful of photo op units... Russia is still stuck in Soviet propaganda.