From: jeff@ukra.com   
      
   > I don't think so. It is amazing how fast Putin has modernized Russia's   
   > military in a short two decades.   
      
   So modernised that it was fought to a standstill by Ukraine and then   
   pushed back to its own borders. Give Putin 2 more decades of   
   modernisation and they could be beaten by Swiss female football team.   
      
   Putin's policies have crippled the Russian military. They are too large,   
   too underfunded for their size, moral is non-existent, logistics are a   
   joke, reliability is non-existent, tactics are a joke. They still think   
   they are fighting WW2. A war of attrition is all they are capable of,   
   which they may well win purely on numbers, but at what loss.   
      
   Jeff   
      
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