A direct confrontation would be stupid and pointless. Russia is already defeating and dismarming all of NATO in Ukraine. They are defeating them the same way. The west is incapable of fighting a war of attrition.

NATO and the US is already looking at a strategic defeat.


US allies in other regions are already looking towards China and other countries because they see the US is no longer able to protect them and being a US ally just makes them bullet magnets,

The smart play is the let the US empire and the wannabe empire in Europe destory themselves.

So... a country so desperately outmatched militarily that it can't take out a neighbor a fraction of its size and a country that's competing to see whether it collapses from economic, environmental, or population pressures first should take on the US because the US is short one one category of weapon?

This is sounding less like simple derangement and more like Trump Malkavian syndrome. Two and a half years and he'll be out of office, but he'll haunt your nightmares forever, won't he?

after 4 years of war you really believe russia has MORE weapon power and healthy young soldiers than america?? hundreds of warships that can cross the atlantic using sails because they have virtually NO fuel!! you have NOOOO idea how bad conditions are in russia.

We spend over a trillion on the military every year - what are they buying? I guess tanks in case Russia invades Europe through the Fulda Gap. Nations tend to stick with whatever worked in the last war they won. What we need are cheap drones as the next war will be fought with them.