This was tongue in cheek, yes. That being said, "the Russian army will be driven to a virtual stalemate by a former comedian leading a decentralized group of s

This was tongue in cheek, yes. That being said, "the Russian army will be driven to a virtual stalemate by a former comedian leading a decentralized group of startups remote-controlling handmade Wall-E clones equiped with machine guns, while the former real tv anchor leading the US army helps the Russian side to distract people from the pedophile ring he did _not_ take part in" would have sound very tongue on cheek, too.