Dammit Mandrake!
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It is a fair question to ask. I do often think that a lot of the posturing on either side of this is pretty useless when you consider the sheer amount of information we get and how easy it is to succumb to confirmation bias. The sorts of problems and fuck ups we're seeing from Russia and Ukraine are likely to happen to any military engaged in a conflict. What makes up the difference in our minds is that we're seeing it. Think back to any of the "you wouldn't believe the shit we went though" stories you hear from any US military veteran that served in the field and it probably all about evens out, even though there is no official record of it for the public to see.This war has proven how difficult it is to predict how well a military will actually fight when it comes down to it.
Corruption obviously runs deep in China, but is it any worse than the recent diversity and tranny rot that set in to western institutions?
Though with that said, the US military has been in a continuous live-fire exercise since the early 1940s so while they probably have similar sorts of fuck ups as Russia or Ukraine, there's probably a lot more redundancy built in based upon experience. Plus control over global media probably helps.