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/
But recall that the “collapse” of the Soviet Union was only a reorganization. We won’t be so lucky.