Russia isn’t even as strong as the U.S., and there are 27 other NATO nations besides us, and 5 of those are in the top 8 of the world’s strongest militarys.
I don’t know where this thinking is coming from that now that we defeated the massive Soviet military empire, and absorbed their largest and strongest, and most advanced components into our own military and geographical alliance, that now the West must surrender to the smaller and weaker Russia.
It comes from the fact that these people literally don’t know what they’re talking about. Every day there are new wishful fantasies about how much of the world their studly hero Putin is about to conquer. The truth is that Putin’s Russia is a dying nation on the verge of collapse, overrun with muslims and Chinese immigrants. After losing nearly the whole of Ukraine, Putin can barely hold on to the two cities in Ukraine he still controls.
“now the West must surrender”
So if we don’t “control” Russia and determine what happens in former Soviet territory, we’re surrendering? That’s insane.