And we need to give up our nuclear weapons, to “promote world peace and environmentalism” Meanwhile Putin and Xi build up their forces. We also have to absorb a first nuclear strike before launching back. How idiotic is that?
Dmitry Orlov (author of “The Five Stages of Collapse”) has some fascinating writings comparing the current US with the old Soviet Union.
In this interview he argues that while the US elites are paranoid about Russia, the Soviet Union considers the US a decaying empire that will collapse on its own:
https://kunstler.com/podcast/kunstlercast-348-revisiting-reinventing-collapse-with-dmitry-orlov/