Back when the Berlin Wall went down I warned people the Soviet Union was not dead by any stretch of the imagination. Some officers of higher rank actually got mad at me for saying such things.
The Russians kept up their R&D on their nuclear weapons as we paid them billions of dollars to decommission their old ones. They used the money saved to design newer weapons and now that a total train wreck of a pResident has been in office they are acting almost exactly as I predicted. It is too bad that when I made those predictions I was only a Captain and now most of the flag officers are leftist political hacks who value their positions more than our Country and the Marxist in the White Hut really wants to turn the United States into a worthless third world country.
“...the Marxist in the White Hut really wants to turn the United States into a worthless third world country.”
Well, we’re on our way *there*, in so many ways.
From a global security perspective, the problem with the Russians was never Bolshevism - communism (aka Comintern) merely gave Russian imperialists a convenient excuse and means to extend their empire on the cheap. The Romanov, Bolshevik and post-Bolshevik regimes have one thing in common - the drive for universal empire. It took the loss of 10% of the population for the German people to lose their appetite for empire. We may end up discovering Russia's uncle point if current events continue to their logical conclusion.