Igor lives in a dark bubble if he believes that any serious nation fears the Russian Military.
From the earliest days of the Romanov’s, Russia has produced one catastrophic defeat after another starting w/Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden in the 17th century.
Then came the Duke of Marlboro/John Churchill, followed by Napoleon, remember him? Next it was the Crimean War. Then in 1905 the Japanese Navy sunk the entire Eastern Russian Fleet of some 12 dreadnoughts in the Straits of Tsushima, Manchuria.
In 1914, Russia invaded East Prussia where Von Hindenburg trapped two Russian armies at Tannenberg; inflicting more than 400,000 casualties in 3 days, which effectively neutralized them for the remainder of WW1.
In 1940, the Finns drove them out of their country during in the Winter War.
And bringing up the rear is Afghanistan, where they hightailed it the dead of night in 1989.
Did they have some marginal success in WW2. Sure and so what? We won that war because we took charge of it.
Russian military prowess??? Laughable!!!
Well several things have changed. We military wise right now are weak. Our weakest in all services in manpower and equipment level of readiness since before WW2. While we were closing bases and selling to developers and destroying our defense programs like no tomorrow Russia simply shuttered their plants. When the Morons in the Pentagon and COMNAVATLANTIC place ALL 5 east coast carriers {we have 10 total in the Navy} all at the same base with likely another in the nearby yards we are sitting ducks. Oh did I mention foreign flagged ships by the dozens go buy them as they are tied to the pier? Don’t underestimate Russia’s intent or power.