Not even the people saying this line believe it. They know that if Russia had faced actual NATO armies, the Russian army would be entirely dust by now.https://t.co/yaaovucgSS

— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) June 14, 2023

Indeed. Just US forces could destroy the entire Russian army and Navy in three weeks. As some wag rightly observed, it turns out that Russia doesn’t have the second best army in the world, but they do have the second best army in Ukraine.