No more dysfunctional or susceptible to corruption than any other military now, even our own. A full blown war will quickly get them back inline. Putin has put a lot of work into correcting the problems witnessed with the end of the Soviet Union and has been extremely successful.
It comes down to numbers and will. Russia has more of both.
And I'm not taking nukes into consideration. It would be against the interest of all involved parties to ruin perfectly good, resource rich land.
I think we should just remake every movie and get it over with already.
I had guessed it would be North Korea a while ago because that's the only nation/people group we can show as the bad guys without all the PC police getting their panties in a wad.
I saw Red Dawn this weekend. The best part of the movie to me was when the North Koreans seized the city and they were trying to brainwash the people to think they weren't "bad guys." It sounded just like an Obama speech!!! America isn't fair, the rich control everything, Wall Street is corrupt. We are on your side!
That's when I told my son, "They don't need to invade us, they already overthrew us from within."