And they want us to forget about the big Panda sitting on the other side of the room...like it isn't a problem at all, I mean an armed forces that in terms of sheer personnel dwarfs anything most of the rest of the world (certainly the entire West) can match...so killing massive numbers of humans (millions!) is a given...do people think that would happen conventionally? Pah! Not enough smart or dumb bombs capable of that...you'd have to go nuclear.
I think the Chinese are a much bigger threat than Russia, but Russia is easy to be made a boogie man because:
1) We have a history with Russia. When they were Commies the Left loved them and everybody else saw them as a threat. Now, they are led by an organized syndicate of crooks, thugs, former Soviet apparatchiks and idealistic opportunists who all share a Russian nationalist view and for some reason the Left sees them as a bigger threat, I guess because Commies with nukes is more comforting to them.
2) Older generations used to disliking the Russians see no reason to argue the point. Sure, I grew up during and served in the Cold War era, and while this brand of Russia is not necessarily my idea of a close friend (friends don't invade, bomb, kill and steal their neighbors stuff) they are in their present state a much easier foe to manage than the Chinese, but this is a distinction lost on most American's.
3) Obama is threatened by Putin, and not in the way that most American's might think. It is a perverse obsession with Putin, Obama is dwarfed by him intellectually, physically...sexually. It is Alpha vs Beta / Testosterone vs Estrogen / Big Ego vs Fragile Narcissist thing at play. This obsession colors everything this Regime does. And by appearing tough on Russia (which on it's face is hilarious, actions speak...and nothing has been acted upon) Obama is able to deflect Sheeple from his inadequacies as a leader and a man.
4) Russia gave the globalists a big assist by invading Ukraine and seizing territory. I bet in war rooms, board rooms and Congressional and Executive offices champagne corks were let loose in celebration. What has China done? Built up a few mounds of sand in the Sprately's, big whup! Russia is an easier sell to make than China, period.
But China is going to be a bigger deal. The Navy makes a point of projecting power, and sure being a veteran of the aviation wing who doesn't like a big sexy carrier to project that power? But a successful strategy vs the Chinese needs more than carriers and planes and arms...it requires a huge increase in the raw numbers of all types of ships and sealift/airlift capacity...and a hell of a lot more attack subs...if you want to meet the threat conventionally. Definitely a war worthy of filing contractor pockets full of cash, but a hard sell for the public...why do we need a 1,000 ship fleet and more divisions of Marine's and a buttload more of efficient fighters and bombers to confront somebody who appears to be only making sandcastles in the Pacific when there is this hungry bear over here gobbling up stuff we see?
Seems like we are spoiling for a fight with Russia and prepared only to nuke or surrender to China.
Pretty effed up all around if you ask me!
