My source is not Fox and Friends. My source is my own years of military experience and knowing what it takes to properly maintain equipment, coupled with the Russians own statements about the size and organization of their military. The numbers simply don't add up to anyone who knows anything about supply, logistics, and maintenance.
I have no idea if Fox and Friends, or anyone on FoxNew period, has ever made that point because I don't have cable and don't watch FoxNews. But I do have a fairly extensive network of friends with military and intelligence experience who look at the numbers and reach the same conclusions.
There our actual photos, posted by the Russians themselves, of tanks and APC's that were supposed supposedly in reserve. They were being stored outside for years on end. I know from personal experience what happens to that kind of equipment when treated in that manner.
In contrast, I was once detailed to an inspection team to look at storage of the tanks, artillery, and other equipment we keep prepositioned in Europe. That equipment was kept in climate controlled buildings - we even looked at the temperature logs - and routinely maintained both by staff and by visiting units. Because if you don't do that, the shit goes bad fast. Batteries leak, tires dry rot, rust pops up everywhere....
The Russians don't do any of that, and that's not even mentioning the massive theft and crappy spare parts pipeline.
So believe whatever you want in whatever pro-Russian journals you read. I know that the reality of how much of that old Soviet-era equipment still actually works is very, very different.
We’re all going to find out how all those words stack up in a few months.
Without doubt, we certainly can talk the talk, and spend money we don’t have on weapons and use them in malicious ways. It remains to be seen in we can walk the walk against an adversary that can fight back.
The US created a national security threat on Russia’s border and it is not going to go unchallenged.
So believe whatever you want in whatever pro-Russian journals you read. I know that the reality of how much of that old Soviet-era equipment still actually works is very, very different.
There are also many photos of Russian army storing ammo haphazardly outdoors. Seemingly, the Russians don’t know what a pallet and forklift are, either.
The Russian army has been exposed as the Potemkin fake it is but I guess some Kremlin loving eyes will never see.