Patton: "We're going to have to fight the Russians eventually anyway. It might as well be now while we've already got the army here to do it." 
Patton: "We're going to have to fight the Russians eventually anyway. It might as well be now while we've already got the army here to do it."
69 years and counting. He hasn't been proven right yet.
BTW, any direct confrontation between USA and Russia is highly unlikely. Nobody, certainly not Putin, wants to open the nuclear surprise box.