"American troops are battle hardened . Russian troops arent."
American troops are battle hardened due to the US being at war continuously for 30 years and having pounded countless cities, towns and villages to rubble in a war zone stretching from Pakistan to Libya and the Balkans.
Whereas Russia has not.
Which makes the claim that Putin is some sort of Hitler bent on global domination through endless war, an absurd fiction. Utterly ludicrous.
It is the US which is set on global domination through war, not Russia.. But obviously Russia does not intend to be a pushover like Serbia, Iraq, Libya and Syria (were supposed to be).
