--- "How may you know this? The Iraqis, heavily armed and trained by the Soviet Union and then Russia. They use the Same tactics the Russians used. We crushed them in days.
That's a pretty good indicator. Yes, the Russians are likely to be tougher but we could have crushed them at any time since 1945 and they know it. That's why they never tried anything."
How many of us know that we lost the Afghanistan was which Obama said could be won?
Same tactics as Viet Nam. That's a pretty good indicator, albeit of a different sort.