Yes,an important factor in the collapse of the original USSR was that the West spent them into oblivion.That won't work today....today's USSR is awash in oil dollars...euros....pounds....yen.
Excellent points. The very reason Reagan/Thatcher killed the Soviet Union. Now we have a CIC who bows to ME potentates and has no concept of Russian economics and the power building from that. This Russian policy statement says it all, even to a simple nobody as myself. They are regrouping and looking to challenge American superiority. And who do we have to counter their coming aggressive influence? A socilist/marxist "community organizer"!
We are heading to war.