China is an untested superpower without real-world wartime experience with modern weapons, modern warfare, and modern intelligence.
Russia is the only real threat to the United States.
Russia never wanted to be that. The US rejected their desire to join NATO, sabotaged Putin's relationships with Chirac and Shroeder. In fact it was probably the joint veto of the US iraq war (Russia + France + Germany) in the UN security council that made the US dead-set on isolating Russia from Western Europe. People always mention NATO expansion, but there was a lot of other moves the West pulled, such as withdrawing from the ABM treaty, putting Aegis defense systems in Poland and Romania (to defend against Iran? bullshit), etc, of course most recently the bombing of the Nord Stream pipeline. The US sabotaged Russia's desire to be friends with Europe countless times and forced Russia into the only move it had left - to build itself up militarily, in as much isolation as America could create for it. But it wasn't supposed to succeed god damnit! The Americans fucking *HATE* that Russia actually economically grew so much and militarily developed so god damn much over such short time. And they *hate* that their sactions didn't work, that they can't just make the world dance at their whim anymore. The Americans reliably play their hand like absolute dicks, and I'm glad their gambits fail. Fuck the Americans (I'm talking about those in power, not you guys. I love you guys).
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Russia is a great forever-enemy to have if you wish to arm the threatened neighbors.
What better situation could a ruling cabal dream of?
It seems to me you overestimate Russia's military and economic potential.
Exactly. Both are fake.
I agree, Russia has a really strong folklore about being a "glorious nation", "Russia has no borders" and this kinda crap, on top of that they've never seen anything close to democracy, basically just hoping from one tyrannical regime to another ever since the country came to be. They will be violent and expansionist no matter what.
North Korea has performed quite well in the war against the UN.
Yes, and if this keeps up, the DPRK will outlive the UN.
No it hasn't, it ended up as a shithole that survives on foreign aid, all their militaristic chestbeating is just to get some aid in exchange for calming down, it's literally like a child in the mall screaming to get a lollipop
The entire UN is literally bought by the US and satellites, if this continues to escalate to the level of a circus, the organization will simply collapse. That way the DPRK will outlive the UN.
https://www.macrotrends.net/global-metrics/countries/RUS/russia/economic-growth-rate
Notice the time period from 1994 to 2014 has a lot of tall green candles (2009 was a global economic crisis event). Compare it to the time period from 1990-1998 which was all deep red candles.
Russia produces more artillery in 4 days than France produces all year.
Russia has hypersonic missiles that work. The US doesn't have that. Russia has status-6 sub weapon that can take out an entire carrier fleet (some say a coastal city with nuke but I don't think that was the purpose). Russia is far more advanced in operating in the polar region.
I'm not talking about nukes. I'm talking about rate of production of artillery, hypersonic missiles, submarine weapons, anti-satellite technology, etc. Russia has been on a war footing for longer while the West just fed their old weaponry to Ukraine not feeling an immediate pressure to ramp up production in preparation for a world war.
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I don’t think they hate that the Russians have developed so quickly. It provides them with the perfect “enemy” to justify their expansion of nato, the sales of weapons of warfare, and justifications for the expansion of the state. It’s actually probably exactly what they want.
I mean sure the Russian army may well be in the Top 10, and the Russian economy is stronger than we all thought, but none of that is even close to the US. This is a fighter of a completely different weight class and it is simply impossible to seriously consider Russia as a threat to the US.
It is better to overestimate your enemy than to underestimate
It's Gazprom that American hates , Ukraine was about Gazprom and who supply s energy to eorope that's basically it
you're ignorant or delusional if you think China is untested
China hasn't been in a war since 1979, and their military operations other than war have seen very little battlefield action.
bro
the u.s also has not been in a war
what do you think india is
what do you think has been happening in africa
that's because you're still looking at it from the u.s point of view lol
they would never say they're forced to become the bad guys
china is probably tops in modern intelligence
stay coherent man are you overestimating or underestimating?
and how are you supporting these claims ? any objective economic metrics?
this is a propaganda-fed oversimplified childish view of the situation
sadly it's not far from what most us politicians think
Then what is the "real" situation?
That'll be because Russia is currently under wartime economy and France is not, that's not a very useful comparison.
That would depend on what you consider working, several of them were shot down by the patriot system in Ukraine and the patriots there aren't even the latest version of the system, I'm by no means claiming that those missiles are useless or something, but they are not the wunderwaffe the Russians claim it is
Assessing economic developments in North Korea is extremely difficult. The country has not published any regular national account statistics since the 1960s or any budget information since the early 1980s. Almost all the Korean, English, French, and German literature on the matter is extremely anti DPRK biased (for obvious reasons). I'd send you a Chinese paper but you can't read Chinese. Here is one of the less biased, recent, English pieces as a starting point. In it you'll find a more vibrant economy than you want to believe:
here's a start:
https://one.oecd.org/document/ECO/WKP%282020%2915/En/pdfWell, presumably their welfare is at the level of Cambodia.
Various rating systems cannot objectively reflect reality, but, of course, the Russian army is one of the best. Another thing is that in the case of Ukraine it shows itself very strangely, for example, it was obvious to everyone that it was necessary to destroy communications and the energy system of Ukraine, but the fact that the Russian army does it badly suggests some political games behind the screen of a military conflict.
Or, alternatively, with a good army, the Russian command is terribly incompetent.
Even both can be true at the same time.
