Its hard to understand unless you know Russia and communism. They gre up being lied to and the whole system worked on lies. You dont advance unless you lie and the only way things will function is with lies. Unfortunately, this leads to the creation of a parallel universe which we can see they are all living in.
Its like Russians opened the window on their lies and for 30 years they could see the truth. Then they realised the truth was terrible and closed the curtains again and have again decided to live in a world fo lies.
the truth is that the Russians have a terrible military, very limited capabilities, dont believe in anything and are a corrupt and misguided society. As a consequence this is the only type of campaign they can fight.
They believed their own lies.
The bigger question for me is why were they a superpower in the first place. Why were they allowed to conquer half of europe after WW2. Sounds like Western Europeans just didnt care about Eastern Europe in 1945. Had the USSR been death wth in 1950 we would not have had all these problems.
White skin, Slavic soil? lol. Its good that some of the Russian fanboys hear this. Good luck to the Chechens dying for this "white slavic soil".