Well, maybe drunken Russian robots, like the one on “Futurama”.
Interesting that there are reports of drunkeness of soldiers in the field. Looters and free booters; Cossacks and Chechens and who knows who else? If it weren’t so tragic, it would sound sort of like “Blazing Saddles!”.
It appears that field discipline has broken down, what little there was to start with. The Russians may have studied the opening phase of OIF, but they are stuck with the same human material they had before. The failure of field discipline and perhaps shoddy noncoms and officers may go a long way to explaining the failure of the Russian “Petro-krieg” in Georgia to deliver the knockout in just a few days. They had the hardware, the numbers, but they just couldn’t deliver.
At this point, the Georgians just have to hang on and maintain an Army “in being”. The Russian effort may self destruct in a few more days.
And yes, Putin is a thug.