The Russian Federation has one of the largest militaries on the planet, but in the past year, they have proved themselves rather incapable of managing it. Bogged down by the much smaller yet more capable and courageous Ukrainian Army, the Russians have lost their flagship and are at risk of losing their prize possession of the Crimean Peninsula. As the Ukrainians have retaken the Kharkiv province, President Vladimir Putin has decided to order a partial mobilization of reservists while threatening to bombard the West with nuclear hellfire.

This is not the first time in which the Russians were beaten back by a much smaller enemy. In 1905, the Russians were slaughtered by the Japanese in Manchuria and Korea. In 1939, the Red Army was tamed by the Finns. During the ‘80s, the Soviets were humiliated by fighters that our government decided to fund, not realizing that said fighters would later turn on us. Let us not forget that the Russians temporarily lost Chechnya under the drunkard Boris Yeltsin but was later regained during the reign of Putin.

The year is now 2022, and the Russians understandably do not want to be humiliated by a much smaller enemy once again, but they quite obviously have not seemed to have learned much. The Russian Army have proved themselves incapable of fighting a modern war, much like the Imperial Russian Army during the reign of Emperor Nikolai II. I once read somewhere that the Russian Army lacks up to date rations and equipment, and that corruption is widespread across the armed forces.

Long story short, the recent mobilization will not do a thing. The best thing that the Russians can hope for is that they can keep Crimea and the Donbass region. Resources were depleted during the siege of Mariupol and thousands upon thousands have since fled the country. And it is incredibly unlikely for the Russians to ever take Kiev, at least in the near future. This war will rank among Russia’s other military failures.

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