What I am saying is that they have been at war with us through proxy (Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, Nicaragua, Venazuela, NK, Cuba, Vietnam, China, basically any trouble spot in the world), consistently since the end of WW2. Not all war has to be a shooting war as I’m sure you can deduce from the examples above.
The current state of their military is extremely weak, if the reports of dozens of broken down tanks, 20+ aircraft shot down, naval fleet that is rusted and in disrepair can be believed.
They have nukes are are probably trying to position them as far forward as possible. At the same time, their closest neighbors want nothing to do with them. Those neighbors being the Baltic states, Ukraine, Georgia, Hungary, Croatia, etc. They’ve been under the Russky boot and they don’t want to go back to that.
Now is when we could show Georgia the type of support we could provide to our allies. Bring in our aircraft, knock out CCCP anti-air threats, take out their rusty armor, let the Georgian’s on the ground retake their country.
No draft needed, because CCCP knows our nukes aren’t rusty and no matter how aggressive Putin gets he really doesn’t want to face that threat.
We have pussy-footed around the problem for generations. It is time to kill the threat to our way of life.
Do you really think our military is “weak” right now? Hell we are just getting a taste for the fight! Just as we start kicking tail in Iraq, the bad guys give up and turn political.
The Marines, and soldiers that spent their days OUTSIDE of the wire in Iraq know the score, they know where the bad ju-ju has been coming from since the beginning.
Are you that small minded NOT to see it?
I think our military is the best in the world. I have never said otherwise, either directly or indirectly.
What I do think is that an attack on Russian troops could easily end up in a nuclear war and if that happened, the best military in the world or not, it would be a nightmare. In other words, nukes are the great equalizer.
As far as the war with proxy, other than China and maybe a couple of others, I think you make some good points. They could probably say the same about our support of other countries, such as the former countries that were part of the USSR.
There is no easy answer, that’s for darn sure.
take care.