Philips O’Brien on LBC very clearly explaining why #Russia’s “military superpower” is really a castle built on sand:

What makes power? Too many people were obsessed with weapons. But military is the creation of a society. The society is far more important than the strength of the tanks it has. And Russia is a corrupt, technologically deficient country. It was never able to produce the military that, sadly, many analysts thought it would do. An army is a product. If you have a corrupt society, you’ll have a corrupt army.

I like it, because I’ve been explaining exactly the same thing to people I know in and outside Russia for years :)