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dornoch altbinhax's avatar

The US has a nuclear bias and as you've observed it's conventional means of dominance have dwindled, but so to has its nuclear capability. It's silos of ICBMs have been neglected and with the Brits failure to launch a trident one wonders how effective their sub fleet would be. Maintenance personnel, engineering capability of "legacy" systems is apparently MIA. The wonders of financial engineering. So in terms of proportional effect I've seen it argued that US and Europe would be definitely terminated with extreme prejudice, Russia would sustain substantial but survivable losses. And if this assessment is wrong no problem - we won't be around for recriminations. So, I agree it's not Israel's Sampson option but the US/UK worshipers of Mamon/Maloch.

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statsman's avatar

"Russian Ascension: By Blood & Iron awakens The Bear!" I'm sympathetic, because I would like to see the evil empire fall as well, (and it will because of the demographic collapse of the original European stock) but the "rise" of Russia is just cope. Russia (as always) is dependent on the West for tech, most especially for machine tools and CNC systems to build its arsenal. Russia will go no further than a few miles beyond the Ukraine border. It just doesn't have the resources or the man-power to move any further into Western Europe. Western hedonistic antinatalism and secularism has hollowed out the fruit of Russian demographics worse than the West. Even once fertile Muslim nations are succumbing to feminism and the corrupting influence of Western wealth and are barely reproducing. War is a game played by young healthy men. The US will increasingly wilt but I don't see another nation with the national IQ or healthy demographics that could possibly replace it as a World straddling leviathan.

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