It is an interesting thing, how our culture affects our eventual ability to survive.
Russia has altered course positively, but decades of multiple abortions policy and an anti-child mentality means a host of social problems. And this translates into a weaker and weaker military.
They drink VERY hard as well. Young alcoholics are not the best troops.
Same with China. They want to rule the world but have gutted themselves with their murderous, horrifying one child policy. They have pivoted but I think it is too late for the next 50-100 years. There is an anti-child culture, now. Most Chinese don’t want to have child/ren.
These suicidal cultural components are in the US too but are not official policy and many of us resist. Most of us are child positive and we aren’t drinking/opiod/fentanyling ourselves insensible at the Russian level, anyway.
For us, the homosexual juggernaut seems to be the biggest threat. Open homosexuality dooms a culture and Obergefell and its ramifications is a tool of oppression against religious freedom.
I dunno about biggest, certainly one of.
There is also the high level of drug use and addiction, the fact that a good chunk of the country is very recently from “somewhere else”, the fact that very low numbers of youth have any sort of nationalist sentiment, the obesity….
“Same with China. They want to rule the world but have gutted themselves with their murderous, horrifying one child policy.”
Demographics is destiny. By 2030, China will be overly populated by grandmas and grandpas. Meanwhile, India’s majority population will be under 30-years of age.
In a land war, India will crush China. The window for ChiComm hegemony and aggression is rapidly closing.