[KarlInOhio]

one of the Kremlin’s most valuable strategic assets: its reputation as a first-rate military power. Moscow has spent decades cultivating that image.

Maybe before the first Gulf War when the Elite Republican Guard was lying in wait with their Soviet equipment to slaughter us in the desert. Then, to quote SCTV: It blowed up real good!

[jttpwalsh]

I remember well the LA Times and their artist renderings of the vaunted Republican Guard. Eight feet tall, battle hardened super men, waiting patiently in their underground bunkers. They would emerge, and vanquish the soft American troops who dared to take them on. How did that work out ?