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The only things of significance Russia has achieved, if you call it that, is the loss of 50% of its best troops in the first moth of the war. And proving the RGF, Naval Infantry, VDV and VKF are hollow and poorly trained.

Russia is today winning. The Ukrainian Army is getting absolutely decimated. Their best forces, Azov Battalion have been routed and those that weren't killed are now Russian prisoners.

Since 2014 we have equipped the Ukrainian military with the best training and hardware that untold billions of dollars can buy. They are today a proxy NATO army and the Russians are learning everything they need to know about fighting against NATO tactics.

Today the Russian military is the most battle-hardened modern army in the world. Combat veteran American mercenaries are returning home with warnings that this was nothing like Iraq or Afghanistan. We haven't fought an enemy that wasn't wearing sandals since the Korean War.

"We haven't fought an enemy that wasn't wearing sandals since the Korean War."

I'd argue the one exception would be the First Gulf War. But definitely the US hasn't fought a peer or near peer military since then, and definitely has not fought on a total war footing since WW2 imho.

“...Today the Russian military is the most battle-hardened modern army in the world...”

Today the Russian army is the second-best army in Ukraine. Many of their armored personnel carriers have been taken out, not with Javelins or other sophisticated weapons, but with RPG-7s and Cossacks with enough guts to get close and take the shot. The eleven-time-zone country has lost much of its best equipment fighting the one-time-zone country. The Russian army has concentrated so much on looting that it has failed to mind its business and has suffered high casualties gaining few kilometers.

Russia like the West has forgotten how to have children and today Nigeria has a much higher population than expansive Russia. That low-population also means that Russia suffers from spoiled only-child syndrome. These are not the Ivans of the November 19th, 1942 counter-offensive on the flanks of Stalingrad. The Russians have almost four times the population of Ukraine but their Army has not been able to overcome the much smaller opponent.

Combat veteran American mercenaries are returning home with warnings that this was nothing like Iraq or Afghanistan. We haven't fought an enemy that wasn't wearing sandals since the Korean War.

I was enjoying the opinion of Ben Hodges the other day.

The dude has never been the subject of a serious artillery shelling - but he was pontificating about the RuZZian army and how they was gonna get beat up some moar by dem Ukies.

Of course, the little puke is a NeverTrump perfumed Obama prince, military ladder climber extraordinaire...