This is their reward for being good bullet sponges. Going from being the frontline troops in a modern battlefield to advising and playing a support role in an under developed colonial country.
It's basically a return to form for them and their presence tends to relax Western aggression for fear of pissing off Russia by dropping bombs on their citizens.
The US killed like 100 of them in Syria and it almost caused a major diplomatic incident and gave Putin some chips to play against NATO during the conflict.
This is their reward for being good bullet sponges. Going from being the frontline troops in a modern battlefield to advising and playing a support role in an under developed colonial country.
It's basically a return to form for them and their presence tends to relax Western aggression for fear of pissing off Russia by dropping bombs on their citizens.
The US killed like 100 of them in Syria and it almost caused a major diplomatic incident and gave Putin some chips to play against NATO during the conflict.