Originally Posted by
peter we
Russias conventional forces are vastly inferior to Nato in both number and quality. After the decades of decay of the Soviet period, Russian through years of further economic decay and only recently tried to modernise.
Why would you think Russia's military is capaable of anything?
So lets see Western Military kept modernising in that period of time and in Afghanistan and Iraq were shown to be sending people out in poor armoured vehicles with the result many did not return home, so yet another round of modernisation has occurred since, Only impact is to make Military Industrial Complex richer.
Now Russia you could say missed 2 decades of spending billions on equipment but has in last couple of years. BUT Russia is not modernising equipment to 1990's standards, its doing it to today's.
The idea of talking down ability or your opponent and talking up your own ability is as old as the hills, hell just over 100 years ago it will all be over by Christmas as we are superior to German / Austian Hungarian / Ottoman Empires was the refrain.
75 years ago Hitler thought the same.
Only a fool underestimates their opponent and you can have better equipment but that alone doesn't bring victory.