The working theory is that massive corruption and yes-manning has led to Russia’s armed forces being a paper tiger. If someone at the top says “we need to rest

The working theory is that massive corruption and yes-manning has led to Russia’s armed forces being a paper tiger. If someone at the top says “we need to restock 1000 additional cruise missiles”, then the person under that grifts a little and says “we need to stock 950 additional cruise missiles”, and you follow that down the chain, you might end up with 500 instead of 1000 missiles. Same would go for things like vehicle maintenance. And it might be more invisible too, like ordering cheap tires instead of quality one’s.