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>I think Russia's folly in Ukraine was one of the few moments of a reality check that hit him
I've always been curious how the PLA tried to spin being so totally oblivious to Russia as being as bad as they were at complex combined arms operations despite doing so many joint exercises with them. It's especially conspicious since the worst performing parts of the Russian military (the Airforce and the Navy) are what the PLA would be most reliant on in a Pacific Conflict. Seems like Xi would have been likely to at least consider that a possible explanation for why the PLA didn't recognize their Russian counterparts being shit was that they weren't much better, and that a lot of the military exercises have been bassically by rote (potentially even the ones trying to realistically simulate the US military having advantages over them).