[MinorityRepublican]

Russia is incapable of waging a war on the scale that we were able to on the two invasions the U.S. executed on Iraq.

Due to corruption, a lot of it is because of their Soviet legacy

[Robert DeLong]

So you claim. It may or may not be the case. I've never examined it from that prospective.

I tend to believe it is the collapse of the USSR which left Russia totally devasted on numerous levels, and the struggle to make the society whole again has not been been fully realized, even after 33 years. Making a society whole again is a real uphill battle. It may never be fully whole again. It has only reached its current state with lots of help from the U.S. which can't decide if it should be destroyed or restored.