Well it is hardly a confrontation between a previous unready now battlehardened party and a supposedly a fully armed nuclear party which wanted to sprint faster than whatever the bush administration did or kind of failed to do walk in the park back in 2003.

 Should the numbers be true they will need 15 years to fully replenish their ranks , their logistics are as fucked up as they were when they virtually took power in 1991 or 1993 , brain drain , no good soldiers among them and they even import from the hermite kingdom , they do not need western propaganda to hit this nerve...

Stalin lost like millions of soldiers but it was for his own survival for the survival of Russia as Soviet Union and of course make his own point to Adolph.

It is a clear sign Russia may further implode , where Russia Quits China will enter.