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Från att föreställa ha varit "världens näst starkaste armé" till att vara den näst starkaste armén i Ryssland... 
En genomgång i varför det blivit så och de bakomliggande mekanismerna inne i Ryssland, från början av invasionen:
https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502673952572854278
Why Russian army is so weak
When Russia invaded, experts thought it'd win in 24-72 hours. Two weeks later the war's still going. How come? On paper Russian superiority's overwhelming. Although Russia projects warlike image, its military is weak and don't know how to fight wars: 🧵
State security fears potential rivalry from the army. So they introduced several mechanisms of control. One is to do a cleaning up after each war killing generals who got too influential among the troops. And leaving the less infuential ones. That's a negative selection mechanism. Kremlin actively promotes state security to the army positions.
A typical monologue of a Russian professional military:
Words cannot describe how low in dominance hierarchy the Russian army is. To get some idea, watch this video from a Russian official TV channel. An officer asks for a minute of silence for "our special operation boys dying there" and see what happens. Army has no respect at all.
- [Long patriotic speech]
- Complaints on how he'll never get promoted, because all the positions are given to young state security with no military experience.