there aren’t developing better technology because we won’t give them the tools to do so
You're talking about an industrial and scientific base that achieved every first in the space race except a manned landing on the Moon. Russia isn't the USSR, but they haven't undergone a half century of deindustrialization like the U.S. has, and their education system didn't just disappear, either.
literally losing hundreds of thousands of soldiers
Whatever else you believe about this war, you have to understand that casualty figures are speculative, we have no way of independently verifying them, and anyone who might bother to independently verify them is invested in one side or the other and is thus likely to lie.
You're talking about an industrial and scientific base that achieved every first in the space race except a manned landing on the Moon. Russia isn't the USSR, but they haven't undergone a half century of deindustrialization like the U.S. has, and their education system didn't just disappear, either.
Whatever else you believe about this war, you have to understand that casualty figures are speculative, we have no way of independently verifying them, and anyone who might bother to independently verify them is invested in one side or the other and is thus likely to lie.