>>64124338
Nah, you just underestimate how bad things were before 2008 and before 2014 respectively.
You can kek about them using Baofengs and used Motorola radios, but in 2008 they were forced to use civilian cellphones for example.
T-62s were the norm.
Not having armor, NVGs and other basic bitch stuff was also the norm.
Same with transport, those Tigr MRAPs, those Kamaz Typhoons and other shit were a night and day improvement, compared to what they had to use before that.
This is all for the professional carde troops mind you, not even for conscripts.
Even those shitty russian MREs were insane nextgen shit, compared to how it was before 2008.
Same situation was across the board: 4-5x less planes could fly, most of the planes were even less equipped, they had even less precise munitions, they only could do bombings which couldn't hit shit (they literally figured out bombing only because they spent years in Syria training on live targets, no joke), and if you think the russia fleet in 2025 is a joke, then god forbid you dig down into what it was before 2008 kek.
Literally all of their shit which at least somehow works, including their modern missiles (Iskander, Kalibr, even the ChingeAll), is from their giant modernization drives they did post-2008.
