Simply not true...Russian forces quickly kicked US trained Georgian forces butt in 2008, forced Ukraine regular forces and their fascist militias into submission in Eastern Ukraine in 2014, and turned the tide against US trained Al Qaeda terrorist forces in Syria in 2015 -2016.
In Syria a handful of Spec Forces and Kurds virtually wiped out a full battalion of Rooskie mercs.
Another neo-liberal fiction, which conveniently ignores the massive airstrikes that were called in that night from US bases in Qatar. Absent those airstrikes it is doubtful the Kurdish forces could have held their positions from advancing Assad backed militias.
-btw a lot of those so-called Russian mercs were actually Ukrainian
Where do you get this “neo liberal” nonsense. I’ve been noticing a lot of pro-Putin and pro-Russian types showing up on FR lately. Do you have good things to say about Xi also?