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You'll find that most history of military and police failures is portrayed as "they were unable to overcome a clever, all knowing enemy"
instead of the reality which is: "our forces are insanely incompetent, poorly trained, and simply bad at their job."
Police example: everything about Jeffrey Dahmer.
It's all part of propaganda to whitewash one's own incompetence. It reminds me of WWII when the British lionised Erwin Rommel, in order to cover up British incompetence.
To be fair, the Germans (with generals like Rommel at the forefront), basically invented modern combined arms mechanised warfare. The allies were smacked around hard until they caught on to the concept.
Even more, the allies didn't really win the war due to superior strategy, tactics, training, or equipment, but rather due to better logistics, manufacturing capacity, and more manpower. It's actually a bit ironic that NATO has built its current doctrine around smaller but highly advanced and well trained forces; which is what the Germans relied on, rather than simpler equipment that is easy to mass produce; which is what beat the Germans.
The latter is what the Russians seem to have gone for. They just never considered that training their personnel was very important, so it never worked very well either.
?? The russians had weathered multiple wars by that point? Like the amount of wars the red army was involved in after the october revolution, they were extensively trained I should think
Nah, Russia has never cared about its soldiers (or russians in general really), they just rely on having enough numbers to throw into the grinder. Many soviet troops send to the wars against us finns in ww2 for example just froze to death because the leaders were incompetent and didn't care enough about them to order proper equipment.
Part of the incompetence is they can't tell anything negative to higher ups so the chain of command all lie from the bottom to the top, so the leaders have no fucking idea what is actually happening. You can see this still going on in today's Russia; the start of the war against Ukraine was a good example, conquering Kyiv in a day my ass. Putin clearly had no idea what was the actual state of his army. I doubt he still has too good of an idea about what is actually happening out there - people who tell hard facts are likely defenestrated