Well, I don’t think their will be many Russians left by the time the war ends but in any event the younger generation has tasted freedom, wants capitolism and hates the communistic governments of both nations. They see no point to this line of thinking that the current KGB/Politbureau and Maoist/PRC continues to maintain. That to me is why I feel this war is less then 10 years away. A lot of these guys in both nations goverments are old (except for Putin). They will die off if a war doesn’t start but they are a race against time to restore or expand their ‘glorious’ controlling, messed up empires and thought process. Also, our enemies know we have an achilles heel now and th
at is oil. The private sector has created a massive investment opportunity and the technology already engineered is affordable and scalable to be off foreign oil in the next decade. They move and move soon and probably feel it is the only time left in the modern age they can stop our civilization from dominating the globe and they right about that in general but what they have is paranoi that we will do very bad things to them. This is ignorance or malevolence considering we have all but given away our entire country to the rest of the world.