Well written. If someone can possibly show a case for how a resurgent Russia is somehow a threat to vital US national interests, then maybe I would be more concerned, but I just don’t see Russia as a threat to us. Like you wrote, I see the decadent West as a greater threat. We are literally creating an Orwellian state here in the US, and I’m supposed to be worried about Russia? The Oceania superstate is characterized by perpetual war (or threats of war), omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation by propaganda. Yeah, sounds like US.
Usually, chasing foreign dragons is a distraction from the real threat to the Constitution, American politicians.