The Russians are what they have been since the late ‘80’s, a paper tiger. If Trump truly wanted to take the Russians down a peg or two, just simply initiate a new arms race, they’d hang on a little longer than they did with Reagan, but eventually go bankrupt.
“The Russians are what they have been since the late ‘80’s, a paper tiger.”
The USSR was *always* a paper tiger. Some people called them “a third-world country with first-world weapons,” but even that was overestimating them.
Our intel agencies consistently overstated Soviet capabilities throughout the Cold War.
One of the major reasons there was no nuclear war was that their weapons were not accurate enough to take out our response capability, while we could drop a warhead on the podium in the Supreme Soviet.
We were also able to track their missile subs and take them out at will. The Japanese ruined that for us when Toshiba gave our non-cavatating propellers to the USSR.
Tell that to all the Turks that Russian Konkurs missiles are killing in their ex-German Army frontline Leopard 2s in Syria. I wouldn’t be so secure in your assumption.