Some people here seem like don’t realize that Russians didn’t fund floating a nuclear sub once a couple weeks between 1969 and 1989 for nothing and 50 thousand nuclear warheads on top of this. They would easily destroy the whole world outside Russia out of the fear of being invaded. It is imprinted in a national psyche forever. For that reason alone modern US foreign policy like NATO expansion in Europe is borderline insane.
——It is imprinted in a national psyche forever. ——
Aaahhh, there you have it. Defense has always been the key to the Russian effort. The devastation must never happen again.
Regarding NATO, I don’t really disagree. The fear and need for defense cuts both ways though and is the reason for NATO. The bear growled, a bluff.
I like to take a very long view of history. I have come to believe some Darwinian survival of the fittest evolutionary biology is presently at work. The fittest men in Germany, France, Russia and maybe UK were killed and not available for breeding. In Germany, both Russian and American genes of the conquerors were introduced into the pool.
If we are racist and it is OK when thinking in Darwinian terms the hodgepodge of Russians entering Germany were racially inferior to the solid Germanic stock. The result today is a Germany totally incapable of aggression. There is some question that Germany can even defend its self.
Meanwhile in Russia, Vladimir Putin ‘s main task is curing the very sickly Mother Russia. Once again, the men with strong genes were killed off. The result is a country that has difficulty functioning.
The genetic deterioration of Western Europe has allowed a more genetically fit invasion from the Mid East and Africa. It is actually a genetic seepage. The existing population is genetically weak and can’t be motovated to put up a proper defense. Europe is actually doomed.
Ifyou have money in Europe, move it to Dubai or Singapore...... east of Suez is the furure