In all fairness, the Western powers + NATO got smoked in Afghanistan in the past 20 yrs by a group of Cave Dwellers no less, or so we were told. Some of us were made to believe (by the Borg) that Russia was supposed to have collapsed due to our "crippling" sanctions months ago.
However, NATO and the US tactics have demonstrated considerable inferiority and a lack of fundamental military logic. They've
had never fought a peer-to-peer adversary and mostly attacked and destroyed small defenceless states like Iraq, Afghanistan, Serbia and Libya.