The US Army continues to be dysfunctional. On the other hand, the rough-and-tumble Russian Army cannot even overcome a small, third-rate country like Ukraine.
Looks to me like the overall winner in all this is China.
Excellent point and they are probably itching and egging this confrontation on.
But yet the Chinese may have just lost a nuclear submarine to one of their own anti-submarine nets in the Yellow Sea, and when they have gone mano-a-mano with the Indians in the Himalayas of late, the Indians seem to have done better.
So everyone under discussion is losing.