Opinion by Max Boot: All of the Russian military’s manifold deficiencies have been brutally exposed during its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
A modern reader would bridle at the assumption that there was an immutable Russian “national character,” but the rest of the Economist’s analysis remains relevant. That can be explained by the fact that Russia is still ruled, as it has been throughout nearly all of its history, by a brutal and corrupt dictatorship.The shortcomings of public administration help to explain Russia’s dismal performance in conflict after conflict.
The Ukrainian army, an outgrowth of the Red Army, was initially hobbled by many of the same difficulties as the Russians, but after 2014, the Ukrainian military and state reformed themselves along Western, democratic lines.
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