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My guess is that they’re either Russians, Slavic Russophiles or a number of people who have bought Pat Buchanan’s line,

Says the guy with the Chinese screen name, desperately trying to convince people that its in American interests to provoke a war with a nuclear armed super power.

You'd be well advised to stay up range with that twatter.

[Says the guy with the Chinese screen name, desperately trying to convince people that its in American interests to provoke a war with a nuclear armed super power.

You’d be well advised to stay up range with that twatter.]

I’m not Chinese. Zhang Fei’s just a figure I plucked out of an ancient Chinese classic akin to Pyrrhus - notable for his defeat at the hands of a superior strategist. And many have accused me of being a genocidal Russophobe and/or Sinophobe, as I’ve pointed out that the both populations are well-situated for physical extermination via saturation nuclear strikes from US SLBM’s, should they ever initiate a nuclear first strike in response to conventional reverses at the hands of American forces. Which is why they won’t initiate those first strikes.

Frankly, I think the Communist movement in Russia and China were the best thing that happened to the rest of the world that did not actually fall under Communist rule. Both Russia and China have what I’ll call the will to universal empire. As long as we keep them penned up, they’ll eventually turn on each other. The best case outcome is they destroy each other, and end up broken up into many dozens of nations. China and Russia with 100m and 10m people respectively would be a lot more manageable, from a security standpoint.

Out of curiosity, though, are you Russian, a Slavic Russophile or just another Pat Buchanan acolyte?

Note that I don’t think ethnic affinity is such a bad thing. Lindbergh was an epic figure, and even he felt the pull of his Teutonic heritage, such that he volunteered to fight the Japanese, the sideshow in WWII, rather than Germany, the major threat. I think you’d have to be inhuman not to feel the pull of ethnic kinship. Ancient armies made allowances for this - given ethnic units on opposite sites of a conflict were seldom asked to fight their kinsmen.

Russia may have nuclear weapons but they are no longer a superpower.

They have exactly no functioning aircraft carriers, more than half of their ‘active’ submarine fleet is along side and rusting in port, their surface combatant fleet is hurting for spare parts and trained crews, their tank forces are a shell of what they used to be especially now that Ukraine no longer repairs Russia’s tanks, and even their nuclear capabilities are questionable when the procurement section of the RVSN RF is flooded with requests for all things related to corrosion in the silos.

They are a faded power that is struggling to recapture their glory days by predating on their weaker neighbors like Georgia and Ukraine.