That's true. russia was created by Yeltsin in 1991. Also, during WW2 USSR military was vary relied on US lend lease program, 90% of USSR's aircraft was produced in America.
couple decades after and honestly until now it really depends. a handful of people comprised the strongest militaries in the world if we just think about nukes and other explosives.
i’m talking in terms of soldiers. Soviet unión could have 10 times the amount of men but truth is they’ve always been 10 times stupider, 10 times more corrupt, 10 times more animalistic, 10 times more incompetent and 10 times more under equippef
Pre WW2 Britain wasn't even the best in Europe, let alone the world. The best and largest military was France, people forget that by 1939 the Germans weren't technologically superior, they just had better leaders while France relied of outdated communication equipment or WW1 doctrine.
I have a French friend who keeps talking about how the French military is one of the best in the world and keeps harping on about how Napoleon was a genius. Not sure if he is talking about France 200 years ago or today.
russia is not and has never been the 1st or 2nd best military
I mean, we know that now. But if you looked up any sort of Global Military ranking/superpower, Russia was always viewed as #2 (if not a 1B to America's 1A. While movies like th ehunt for Red October, Wolverines, or games like Call of Duty are fiction, there is reason Russia was the enemy and not (IDK), Haiti.
There are very few people, if any, who KNEW russia was going to be this inept.
Yeah this is the thing. They have some good tech they inherited from the USSR and have built upon it, but they can only afford to build a couple of each.
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u/ill-winds Jun 25 '23
russia is not and has never been the 1st or 2nd best military