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.
