Exactly.
In another 10-15 years, I’d say russia’s missiles will be mostly useless against the US. With china’s recent stunt in earth orbit, I’d say in 20 years, USA will own space as well. As long as we continue to stay on top of the WOT, our military will evolve into something truely incredible.
They are scared. They know they will soon be insignificant relative to america. This tough talk is how they protect their image.
I’m sure the rest of the world sees this as well. The next decade or two will be interesting for americans. Expect increasing anti-americanism to boil over and left wing extremist groups in america to go completely insane.
Heck, they're that way now! They'll start swinging from trees next, and tossing stool samples.
The Chinese screwed up and telegraphed their intentions way too soon. Our anti missile technology won’t take much to adapt to become anti-satellite either. What we are left with is a hole in our strategy that we have to cover, however, even with star wars and asat capabilities. We need fast and cheap launch to LEO of light to medium payloads. Time for the rocketmen to get busy. Burt Rutan has the start of an idea (along with several others btw). Heavy payloads (and geosynchronous orbits) aren’t as important and manned missions are even less important at this point.