Since when are conscripts who lack winter clothing, food, water, and often officers a tougher army? Conscripts who were teachers, garbage collectors, local drunks, etc who's training consisted of a rifle to look at on induction and then herded to the front a tougher army?
This Seth fellow must have not only swallowed a whole pitcher of Kool Aid but
Always better to over-estimate the enemy than under-estimate them. Your response is a good way to lose a war. Listen only to the propaganda cheerleaders and then act surprised when the West predictably loses, again. You lost to the Taliban. What makes you think you have a chance against Russia in their own backyard?
Kind of like Goebbels scoffing that America can build refrigerators but not military equipment. He saw how that panned out.