Bring it on.

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Russia versus the US?  To be honest, Russia can't win.  Not because the US is capable of crushing them, it is.  Nukes, perhaps, might be a problem.  Though I have doubts about even those.  What the US lacks is the will.  That and having the military gutted after having burned out in the M.East.  Russia just isn't a threat, nor China actually.  America's problem is it can't get up and get going.  Our social, economic, and international problems are all from the same source, our foul politics.  What hinders one of those blocks the others from working as they should.  Even so, in a push come to shove, Russia and China are midgets in all ways.

Still, many seem to love those countries.  There is a certain American and European hatred for the US.  It's a... rebel thing, of sorts.  Some of it involves politics, in theory.  Some of it is more about personal issues.  Can't get what is wanted so hate America.  Whatever.  I never went there too deeply.  I am not happy about some things, but will lay that exactly at the door of those Americans who do wrong, not at the door of all of America.  Simply put, even as badly damaged as she is, America is still better than any nation I can conceive.  Even old Israel, if you want to get biblical, went for a king, against God's will and wish.

Russia really is doing pretty much what America is doing.  Oh, they might seem to be actually, functionally, on Assad's side.  But that is for now, and only for as long as it takes to get what they want.  Those who believe Russia is doing the US, Europe, or even Syria, a solid, are idiots.  Russia does what it does for it's own purposes.  And those purposes are not better than what the US, especially of late though probably back into both Bush's and Clinton's years.  The US is on the wrong side of things, or does things so assbackwards, that we can't win.  Russia, and China, are no better... actually probably worse as a general rule.

Yeah, I agree with their work in Syria, but that is for now.  Putin is on nobody's side, but his own, and literally.  I think he'd see Russia burn if it made him look good.  He is better at being a tyrant than Zero, for now.  He just doesn't have that much to work with.  He has Russians.  The only super power worse than Russians are the Chinese.  Hmm... I wonder if the could go to war.  Or is China saving up for war with India.  Make it a three-some?  It might just go that way.

When Vox, and ilk, and dread ilk, believe in Putin, I know they are off their feed.  He isn't an ally.  He isn't a good guy.  He isn't in it for us, or even Russia.  He is a putz that wants what he wants and probably won't ever get it.  He is just as destructive, for his size, as the US.  Well, our politicians of late have been pretty bad.  Thankfully, they all seem to be about equally incompetent.  Even when they aim for bad they mostly just end up stepping on their dicks.  Whatever...

Yeah, that's how I see it.  Putin fan-boys just piss me off.  I suppose it's better than being Zero fan-boys.  Probably.  Now scoot.  I've no time to deal with big babies who are either lying or too stupid for me to mess with the more.