China and Russia's Air Forces Exposed in Actual Combat

I've been told that a significant part of Russia's problem with it's air force is training. While NATO trains it's pilots for a long time to fly mission with many multiple aircraft against many multiple targets in a contested airspace, Russia doesn't have the funding and expertise to do that. We have seen in Syria and at the beginning of the Ukraine war when they tried using air power aggressively that they flew at most 4 aircraft on simple missions. I don't know how China's training compares. This doesn't negate the points you made; the training problem just compounds the other issues and are not going to get better while the war is going on. One more reason why Russian apologists in the West will increasingly want to pressure Ukraine to "Compromise" and let Russia have some sort of partial genocide so they can rest and prepare for the other part later.