Well, we all know that the Russian military in the big 2025 is an embarrassment, even the shills seem to have got the memo by now and are focusing on damage control rather than hyping them up.

But was this inevitable? If Putin didn't begin a retarded full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and instead worked his ass off trying to weed out the corruption and modernize, aiming to have an actually competent and threatening military by say, 2030, could he have done it? Or will they always be doomed?