It is not only the soldiers , they are young they can be molded should they survive the meat grinder , the worst and weak part is the military leadership unable to inspire or provide solutions to end a problem that huge as it become from a military parade and "Hail Caesar" 3 years ago.

 In 3 years obviously chopping after chopping and no favors no more it has slightly gone better ,
They are hardly the shadow of the decline of their 1979 predecessors and i think it is laughable they can be compared with Stalin's Generals , Stalin was lucky in this 1940s jungle he did not need so much fear but commitment and all were committed gifted with the skill of war love 4 the motherland and what they saw as evil far more worse than Stalin himself.
And that was fucking hitler.

These are people who have learned nothing from the Afghan Experience and counted more on handshakes and undeclared war init aka "Training Exercise" while Kremlin itself declared there will be no invasion...

And after Lie the liars apply death and madness...

In a real Organized Warfare mano a mano against the US what the Russian Federation really has is a mass suicide on the tactical battlefield and when that ends sooner or later mass retaliation with nuclear weapons...

A loss loss scenario.