turns out all that crap was just what everyone expected it to be: fabricated lies. And also Russians are really bad at conducting war and resorting to meat wave tactics. For a board that cares about firearms and military tactics, it didn't take too much of a far reach to dislike and laugh at Russia.
Having more bodies to throw at your enemy is a valid, war-winning tactic. Really that's what the meme _should_ be. Russia will beat you with poorly trained soldiers and two generations old tech. Bet.
But I guess that also undermines everything that /k/ stands for...
Technological and tactical superiority can help you win a war but you're making the mistake of thinking that war is something other than what it is. Ultimately it's about how much death and chaos your population can tolerate vs the other guy. Russia habitually proves that their appetite for it is enormous.
Even when they lose it's only a few years that go by before they're waging war again.