Cannoneer No. 4:

“A commander with any integrity would not allow such people in his battle space. The Russian Army is not ready for prime time and these South Ossetian, Chechen and Cossack brigands with whom they allow themselves to be associated illustrate how far the former Red Army has sunk.”

a whole NATO force sat idly and looked another way while albanians ethnically cleansed away serbs in kosovo. so i wouldn’t pass judgment so fast; or even assume that this is not by design of kremlin.