The US has neither the stones nor the endurance for a fight with Russia. Sure, we've got all kinds of technological toys....which have done us a lot of good in Iraq and Afghanistan. And our military is primarily the guinea pigs for whatever social experiments the monkeys in Washington want to try out. The American people don't have the patience for a war of that magnitude, either. They've put up with the Iraq-Afghan wars as long as they have because a) they don't have a choice (no one has seriously listened to anyone who's been against the war for ANY reason, not just the typical loons who protest ANY use of the military), b) the body bags are, for the most part, coming home in twos and threes, not hundreds every day, and c) unlike Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the "We're Winning!" portion of the second war with Iraq, these aren't on the news every night, unless something happens that the media can trumpet about how evil the US military is or how they got their asses handed to them by cave-dwellers with Enfields, the stories don't make the front page of the newspaper.
Our so-called 'leadership' is so weak, if Russia WERE to launch an ICBM at us, they'd sit on their thumbs until after impact, and then protest loudly to the Useless Nitwits.
Russia is making the Ukraine their bitch, and our 'leaders' are asking them nicely to please stop. Not that it's really any of our business in the first place, and I have a real issue with young American men who are too naive to know any better getting their limbs blown off or losing their lives so that a bunch of banksters and speculators won't lose their asses on natural gas futures (follow the money and pipelines in that area of the world) at the behest of a society that considers them to be nothing more than pawns, workhorses, cannon fodder, and ATMs. So this is one time I actually am glad for such weak sisters as we have in Washington right now.
From a purely military standpoint, I wouldn't want to tangle with Russia. Once you factor in the other things that contribute to losing a war, we REALLY need to not mess with Russia.
But you know what? At the end of the day, it is, as the Russians would say, "Ne moya problema".
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