I accompanied an escort of some civilian personnel from Bondsteel to a Russian facility at night. The Russian soldiers on guard were openly smoking reefer. While we were waiting a new Mercedes (the local gangsters' ride of choice) pulled up to deliver two whores for the Russian officers. When the guard changed they left their weapons for use by the arriving relief. The Joes I was with have no respect for the capabilities, the discipline, the training or the morale of the Russian Army.
Of course the boob who started this thread wants us to believe that this, along with the Russian Army's failure to control Chechnya is nothing more than a Machiavellian scheme to lull us into a false sense of security so that they may spring the trap when the time is right. But then he also wants us to believe that it is the left in America who has duped us into believing that the terrorists are muslims.
IIRC, the Russian contingent in Kosovo was from their "elite" airborne forces.