Yeah, it’s better to be enemies with a Paranoid people with a Nuclear stockpile that could turn America into glass.
US spends more than 10X the next 5 countries combined on Military. If anyone so much as farts in our direction we can remove them from existence in moments
And your Dr.Strangelove like comment leads me to believe that you may share the image of Russia as the belligerent nation it was as the USSR. JFK was offed as the MIC wanted wars and he was pulling them down. Anyone who thinks a nuclear conflict will go unanswered and essentially depopulate the greater portion of the entire globe is a fool.
Maybe I have read your commentary wrong, and if so I apologize. But at the end of the day both Trump and Putin realize that once started the end result is a dead planet