Even with all the downgrades and emasculation of our military Obama has wrought, Russia is still no match for our troops. Their political leadership and its willingness to engage, however...
With the cowardly Gen. Martin Dempsey as the head of JCS, we would surrender within an hour.
Putin knows that he would lose his military quickly if he engaged NATO, and he also knows that he can’t afford to be left defenseless with his East exposed and his internal problems, and a 15% Muslim population, and no economy to rebuild his Air Force and his military equipment, and to pay his draftee military.