“I cannot comprehend how this Russian bear that we were so terrified of is now turning out to be just a oversize overweight bully who’s getting beaten back by two or three kids in the class who got the guts to do it.”
It’s pretty simple, really. All of Russian society is based on lies and has been for generations. Everyone lies to everyone else about virtually everything. On top of that everyone is stealing anything they can from the government.
All that money allocated for training, maintenance, fuel, and food?
All stolen. It’s why their tanks and armored vehicles are falling apart. They were never properly maintained. Those fuel stores that were reported full? All stolen and sold on the black market.
Combat rations for their illiterate conscript army? The good stuff was stolen. All that’s left is improperly stored garbage that’s a decade past its “best by” date.
And no one stopped it because literally everyone was in on it.
Communism may have technically fallen in Russia but the mindset of lies never left. All Putin has left is his nuclear weapons and I’ve got a dollar that says half of them at least would blow up in their silos. Of course it’s the other half we need to worry about.
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Well, there was the plausible possibility of nuclear exchange.