Quote (Meanwhile @ Jan 28 2023 10:43pm)
Pavel's (new cz prez) interview last year
https://www.economist.com/briefing/how-deep-does-the-rot-in-the-russian-army-go/21808989 A retired European general says that watching this new model army fail reminds him of visiting East Germany and Poland after the end of the Cold War, and seeing the enemy up close. “We realised how s... the 3rd Shock Army was,” he says, referring to a much-vaunted Soviet formation based in Magdeburg. “We’ve again allowed ourselves to be taken in by some of the propaganda that they put our way”.
Russia’s army was known to have problems, says Petr Pavel, a retired Czech general who chaired Nato’s military committee in 2015-18, “but the scope of these came as a surprise to many, including myself–I believed that the Russians had learnt their lessons”.
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They put a lot of money into modernisation,” says General Pavel. “But a lot of this money was lost in the process.” Corruption surely helps explain why Russian vehicles were equipped with cheap Chinese tyres, and thus found themselves stuck in the Ukrainian mud.
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@Bolded
Funny that you're now posting this yourself. This was exactly the point I made 10 months ago, remember? (my old quote that you spam, thinking you have a point

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There is plenty footage out there that gives the impression that the Russian army was fully modernized.
Like this one. Notice, at the start (@ 0:32) "
In 2008 the kremlin announced a far-reaching reform for the Russian army"
Bolded --> Could this have something to do with the NATO 2008 Bucharest summit? I wanna ask Ger war crimes denier
the same question, inb4 his next mad rant