With a defense budget of $90bn, I think the Russians are better at talking up their capabilities than anything else.
Are those American dollars? Wonder what they'll be worth compared to Russia's nukes, gold, oil, and leaderships' willingness to fight?
We just busted below 80 on the dollar index:
And the gold manipulation doesn't seem to be working today, I might even see the tiniest of upticks:
This is the Rent-A-Center approach to international force projection.