[Porterville]

20 years of technology improvments leave Russia empty. However, if we have to march on Europe again- I hope we keep it this time.

[BuffaloJack]

The problem with a New Cold War is that the Peace Dividend reduced our military and more important our Defense Industry to a shadow its former capacity.
I blame the liberals and all their social programs. We aren’t even educating our kids at the levels we used to.

[Always A Marine]

Russians really believe this stuff, partly because the government has, in the last few years, taken control of most mass media in the country.

That is a very powerful statement. America is only a new "Fairness Doctrine" away from a populace that will blindly believe whatever the "Mainstream Media" wants it to believe. If Vladimir Putin were an American politician, he would support a new "Fairness Doctrine" to silence all alternative media outlets.