Besides antagonizing China, the Georgian war also exposed the hollowness of Russia’s military re-armament. Yes, the Russian army could smash Georgia and most of its ex-Soviet neighbors, but its performance in Georgia shows that it remains the same lumbering, badly motivated outfit that it was in the 1990’s.
除了与中国交恶，格鲁吉亚战争也暴露了俄罗斯的重新装备军队的空虚性。是的，俄罗斯军队可以打败格鲁吉亚和它大部分的前苏联邻国，但其在格鲁吉亚的战绩表明，它仍然和20世纪90年代一样，笨拙而且素质差。