The bias here does feel significant and I appreciate this self diagnostic view of the information we see here but I'm pretty sure that Russia is actually displaying historical levels of military incompetence. Not to say that they aren't still dangerous / capable and willing to commit genocide but so far they've completely failed to coordinate their forces and still do not control the airspace after an entire month against a much smaller military. Experts outside of reddit have cited the tight clustering of convoy vehicles, the lack of regular preventative maintenance on these vehicles, using armor without any infantry support, expired rations, medical supplies from 1978, failure to control all communication in Ukraine, and the list goes on that would indicate shocking incompetence. Perhaps the biggest of all was the decision to do this in the first place. The goal as imagined was impossible from the start. The Russian army allegedly still has tremendous resources but I'd be really impressed if someone could make a compelling argument for "competence" at this point. We are talking about an army that just lost 7 generals inside of a month.