I didn't see this posted yet and is perhaps the most culturally important gaming development that has occurred ever.
Without getting into politics or morality of sides, war has been forever changed and favors cheap rapid drone deployment overwhelming more expensive weapons and soldiers. Now the neckbeard eating Cheetos can kill 10 elite soldiers before lunch when he drinks a mountain dew.
Ukraine has released a drone training simulator, and is allegedly similar to how they train their people. They have managed against all odds to repel a much larger and better equipped foe, and are even exporting their tactics and training to the middle east.
These sorts of tactics put heavy manufacturing countries like China in an advantaged spot that I think other countries now must adapt to.
It's a product of where all the competent people are going in society. If you're a quality person, you don't join the military. You go into finance or tech or something to that effect. Not the military.
All the empires with dominant militaries were in periods of time when joining the military was a prestigious occupation so competent people joined the military. Roman Republic, High Medieval Europe, Prussia, Napoleonic France, etc...
Most governments in modernity are bloated bureaucracies with no competent people in them whatsoever except if they're using their competence for corruption to extract gains for selfish reasons. The military is just as bad.
Things will only change after periods of significant wars where all men are at risk of being castrated or killed and all women are at risk of becoming sex slaves. Along with proper incentives for victors (being able to plunder enemies and take sex slaves). Then, you'll see competent people join the military and the bloated bureaucracy give way.
Have you considered that putin's reign was instrumental in dismantling what was left of the military specifically so that there wouldn't be an organized somewhat nationalistic force for when nwo officially happens?
Jewtin works for team jew and so does Jewlensky.