The Russian Army is a joke. Just like this video;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOaGgY2yUHw&feature=related
It looks nice, but as an army, it just doesn’t work well, and has to accept horrible losses even to defend it’s homeland. Foreign campaigns are usually disasters.
More likely we will buy Siberia some day, or China will take it.
“or China will take it”
The Russians are losing control of eastern siberia. They already have an illegal (Chinese) problem proportionately as bad as ours.