Sure they have some teeth but how many of those teeth rest firmly in a stone-set jaw?
For all Putin's pretense of ruling a still-great power (a ploy for which President Obama fell in his great START-treaty giveaway), what serious military has generals and admirals so dull-witted and alcohol-sodden that they allow 200 military aircraft to burn up on the ground? Gone in one day, that's half the aerial-force losses the Soviets took in 10 years in Afghanistan.
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In crippled economy it will be hard to argue in favor of replacing those aircraft, especially when basic CD services are suffering to this extent.
