Indeed. Tight, coordinated combined-arms exercises is what the US military really fucking excels at. Ignoring prep time, the US military could completely spank the Russian forces in Ukraine in 6 weeks. It’d be an embarrassing slaughter. All the drones in the world would not change that. A passel of AGM-88 HARMs for a few weeks, a wing or two of A-10s, many more Bradleys and a healthy sprinkling of JDAMs dropped from F/A18s and F-22s and Russia would be routed just by air power alone. (Not that Bradleys are air power, but you get what I mean.)

To the extent that the Russian military looks good, it only seems that way in comparison to a country with 1/4 its population, 1/10 its GDP, nearly no close air support and a severe lack of ammo. The US would absolutely annihilate the Russians without much effort.