The question is “Why now? Why Russia?”
China, the true future security threat has paid off or co opted such a large chunk of Congress, the DOD and the higher officer corps, the intelligence community and the foreign policy establishment that there is no source of traction for opposing the Chinese scheming. However, K Street and their masters do need the large amounts of cash that purposeless interminable conflicts generate from service contracts and all the BS think tank and advisory whores get paid for. Russia is a good villain, they seem brutish, they have a language few speak, and they have been our opponent since forever. And they are white. That means they are the perfect villains for the establishment to use to constantly generate perpetual conflict for perpetual peace.
Exactly right about China. China has an economy something like ten times the size of Russia. China IS expansionist. China DOES pervasively spy on America and interfere in our elections (starting with cash to the Clintons).
It’s retarded to hear all the clamoring about the Russian “threat”, when China is 10 times the threat and IS on a road to dominance. Anyone ever hear of Hollywood changing a film around because Russia got mad? They do it for China and the moslems everyday. But the Chinese pay our leaders and opinion makers well.
China and Islam is the threat...but the magicians want you to focus on the Russian hand puppet to distract you to their other hand accepting camel jockey and Chinese money.