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It’s because their entire military is a lie. Their equipment is poorly maintained garbage. Anything that was of any value was stolen and sold. Their conscript peasant army isn’t trained but sold into homosexual prostitution. Their field rations are a decade beyond their use date.

Their Non-coms and junior officers spent their time raping their recruits instead of training them.

No wonder their getting their asses handed to them.

And it’s a joy to watch.

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It’s because their entire military is a lie. Their equipment is poorly maintained garbage. Anything that was of any value was stolen and sold. Their conscript peasant army isn’t trained but sold into homosexual prostitution.

The Soviets were pretty damn formidable with the Red Army and conquered Eastern Europe in 1945 and now they are this pathetic? Did Putin really not know the truth because he was in an Ivory Tower surrounded by "Yes Men"?

[It’s because their entire military is a lie. Their equipment is poorly maintained garbage. Anything that was of any value was stolen and sold. ]

I suspect some of it was just the sheer expense of transporting stuff overland across 11 time zones. And then there’s the cost of maintaining mountains of equipment. They simply did not budget for it. There’s a reason old equipment is scrapped. Keeping it in operational shape costs money. Russia has hoarded old crap for ages, and spread its maintenance budget really thin. A little skim here, a little skim there, and pretty soon, you have piles of rust that crumble to the touch.

And logistics - logistics is horrendously expensive. It’s not glamorous, but it costs and costs and costs. Professionals talk logistics? No - wealthy nations talk logistics. During WWII, the US played sugar daddy to Russia, plying it with war-winning quantities of materials.

https://www.rferl.org/a/did-us-lend-lease-aid-tip-the-balance-in-soviet-fight-against-nazi-germany/30599486.html
[Most famously, Soviet dictator Josef Stalin raised a toast to the Lend-Lease program at the November 1943 Tehran conference with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt.

“I want to tell you what, from the Russian point of view, the president and the United States have done for victory in this war,” Stalin said. “The most important things in this war are the machines.... The United States is a country of machines. Without the machines we received through Lend-Lease, we would have lost the war.”

Nikita Khrushchev offered the same opinion.

“If the United States had not helped us, we would not have won the war,” he wrote in his memoirs. “One-on-one against Hitler’s Germany, we would not have withstood its onslaught and would have lost the war. No one talks about this officially, and Stalin never, I think, left any written traces of his opinion, but I can say that he expressed this view several times in conversations with me.”]

Today, we are supplying to Ukraine a tiny sliver of what we provided to the Russians in WWII. From a material standpoint, Russia is now finding out what it was like to be Germany during WWII (minus the air raids that burned German cities to the ground).