1) Almost all the "advanced equipment" Russia has is untested and unproven, or fielded in such small numbers that any effect it might have in a war scenario is next to nil. Russia has been, for the better part of century, vastly overestimating the abilities of their equipment or resort to just making things up with no proof.
2) Russia has a problem with logistics, all their advanced equipment doesn't count for anything if they can't reload or repair it. Problems with corruption and embezzlement are rampant.
3) Russia has severe manpower problems, most of their troops are untrained conscripts who are only pressed into service for a year with extremely low morale. Professional soldiers don't reenlist and most units are manned at 40 to 60%. Again, advanced equipment doesn't count for s*** if your soldiers can't operate it, much less reload or repair it. They also have very few elite units that they shove in the limelight as much as possible to fool people into thinking they're competent (like the VDV and such) but most of their units aren't at that level.
4) The US Navy and Air Force dwarf their Russian counterparts in every measurable facet. We have 10 operational super carriers with 1 in reserve (Russia has 0), roughly 5 times the amount of planes in our Air Force (not counting our Navy or Marine jets), and better equipment and training for both. We simply outclass the Russians in every meaningful way, and that's totally discounting NATO or comparing our Army + Marine Corps to the Russian land forces.
5) The Russian economy can not support war against NATO or the US. They consistently rank lower than countries like Italy or Canada in terms of GDP and their economy is in a recession at the moment. Sanctions and falling prices in oil have severely crippled them.
My problem with this topic and every topic like this is people embellishing Russia's ability to make war while intentionally underestimating the US and NATOs proven capabilities. Most of it boils down to people being shills, willful ignorance, or people just regurgitating points from RT/Russian propaganda.
Doesn't help that people cherry pick stuff that doesn't even compare, ie the US being bogged down "nation building" in places like Iraq or Afghanistan, which is nothing like a conventional war and also something that no conversational army that exists today is overly good at.
Sources I thought you might be interested in
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russias-military-is-the-largest-in-the-region-but-it-isnt-the-same-force-as-in-soviet-times/2014/03/10/b3b955b8-a48c-11e3-a5fa-55f0c77bf39c_story.html
https://themoscowtimes.com/articles/russian-military-struggling-to-modernize-48232
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/11/news/economy/russia-economy-recession-six-quarters/
October 24, 2016
October 23, 2016
Should Have Gotten Her Some Free Clash of Clans Gems
An Ohio mother charged with suffocating her three young sons said in a recorded police interview that she smothered each boy with a blanket because she didn't want them to suffer.
Brittany Pilkington, 24, also said in her taped confession she was depressed and worried her sons would eventually become abusive toward women.
Pilkington can be heard in the recording, made in August 2015, a day after the death of her youngest son, telling officers that she was sleeping with the infant in bed and then woke up on top of him. She also was recorded saying she held a blanket over her other son's face.
The married mother-of-four is accused of suffocating her sons over a 13-month period out of jealousy at the attention her husband gave the boys.
Authorities allege she killed her 3-month-old son Niall in July 2014, his 4-year-old Gavin in April 2015 and 3-month-old Noah in August 2015. The couple's 5-year-old daughter remains in the custody of relatives.
Pilkington has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated murder. Her trial is scheduled for late February 2017, and if convicted, she could face the death penalty.
A Logan County judge has been reviewing Pilkington's statements while considering a request to exclude her confession in the potential death penalty case. Her lawyers argued it was obtained unconstitutionally.
Prosecutors, however, said the Bellefontaine woman knowingly agreed to be interviewed without the presence of a lawyer.
'These were not statements that were coerced but were given voluntarily,' Logan County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Eric Stewart said.
But the defense claimed police officers pressured Pilkington into making the self-incriminating statements in violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments.
Pilkington's attorney Marc Triplett told Judge Mark O’Connor on Tuesday that police knew his client's 'lack of mental acuity' and that she didn't understand when she signed a form waiving her Miranda rights.
Stewart countered by noting that Pilkington obtained her high school diploma and that she was advised of her rights by officers at the police station and then again at the sheriff's office.
As the judge watched Pilkington's hours-long police interview in court on Tuesday and Wednesday, the woman sat quietly between her two lawyers and kept her head down, reported the station
WDTN.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3855354/Ohio-moms-confession-details-smothered-3-young-sons.html
Brittany Pilkington, 24, also said in her taped confession she was depressed and worried her sons would eventually become abusive toward women.
Pilkington can be heard in the recording, made in August 2015, a day after the death of her youngest son, telling officers that she was sleeping with the infant in bed and then woke up on top of him. She also was recorded saying she held a blanket over her other son's face.
The married mother-of-four is accused of suffocating her sons over a 13-month period out of jealousy at the attention her husband gave the boys.
Authorities allege she killed her 3-month-old son Niall in July 2014, his 4-year-old Gavin in April 2015 and 3-month-old Noah in August 2015. The couple's 5-year-old daughter remains in the custody of relatives.
Pilkington has pleaded not guilty to three counts of aggravated murder. Her trial is scheduled for late February 2017, and if convicted, she could face the death penalty.
A Logan County judge has been reviewing Pilkington's statements while considering a request to exclude her confession in the potential death penalty case. Her lawyers argued it was obtained unconstitutionally.
Prosecutors, however, said the Bellefontaine woman knowingly agreed to be interviewed without the presence of a lawyer.
'These were not statements that were coerced but were given voluntarily,' Logan County Chief Assistant Prosecutor Eric Stewart said.
But the defense claimed police officers pressured Pilkington into making the self-incriminating statements in violation of the 5th and 14th Amendments.
Pilkington's attorney Marc Triplett told Judge Mark O’Connor on Tuesday that police knew his client's 'lack of mental acuity' and that she didn't understand when she signed a form waiving her Miranda rights.
Stewart countered by noting that Pilkington obtained her high school diploma and that she was advised of her rights by officers at the police station and then again at the sheriff's office.
As the judge watched Pilkington's hours-long police interview in court on Tuesday and Wednesday, the woman sat quietly between her two lawyers and kept her head down, reported the station
WDTN.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3855354/Ohio-moms-confession-details-smothered-3-young-sons.html
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