As of right now that's a fact to be fair, in the near future though? The US is slowly losing it's status as the only global superpower and there are some pretty solid contenders which will dethrone the 🦅

in the long run russia doesn't really stand a chance by itself, the thing is that they're developing solid bonds with other nations which are not the best of friends with the US

If we're looking things as a simple plain russia vs usa war

russia's nukes arsenal is primarily dating back to the soviet union

I agree that Russia will lose a war against the US, but the US will suffer massive losses during that war, I'm not counting NATO ofc, just a plain 1vs1 war

Napoleon & Hitler thought the same

their militaries were pretty massive for their times, I agree with you that in an eventual war between Russia and the US, Russia will lose without doubt

And yet Russia simply stepped in Europe, took Crimea from Ukraine which was on it's way to become a NATO & US puppet, and the US did nothing even when they supposedly have such a huge technological & logistical advantage ?

It's a race against time, in the long term run I agree that Russia still wont be able to do anything by itself. China is eventually going to topple the US as the biggest economy however and if they play their cards right they have a huge potential to become the second global superpower given enough time

and they're establishing some pretty good friendship relations with Russia

There's other spheres of warfare nowadays

*yet*

Both Russia & China have suffered some pretty serious damage on their mainland in the past, and yet they're still making some decent progress

The US however hasn't really suffered much damage, which gives them some nice advantage, the other avantage that the US has is that they've pumped massive amounts of money into their military industry for a long period of time, they've engaged wars all around the world and they've established military bases in a ton of countries which pretty much gives them geo-strategical advantage over all of their eventual enemies

and yet the US owns 1.13 trillion $ to China

in order for the US to fund a military which is worth as much as the other 7 countries was it? that are ranked after them, they gotta constantly get the federal reserve to print dollars, the federal reserve is a privately owned bank and so far because the US hasn't really suffered any significant damage they've been able to keep things stable by slowly accumulating debt towards the FED. And in order for money to circulate, the US has been partially using the gold of a dozen various countries which are vaulted in the federal reserve bank in NY.

The world ain't stupid tho, a lot of those countries have already started repatriating their gold reserves and given enough time the US economy feel this. The petrodollar, which is also one of the huge sources of income for the US is slowly starting to collapse, it wont happen overnight ofc but given enough time it'll become much less powerfull which will also cause a strain on US economy.

Considering the fact that even a country like Turkey which in an eventual war against Russia would be a huge key player coz of the nukes, is slowly starting to shift towards Russia, and also considering the fact that a lot of European countries which are part of NATO will not blindly comply with US plans, and then if we add external factors such as the rest of the BRICS countries, NK and a couple of other countries which have been invaded by the US in the past and hold a grudge

the US will eventually lose it's status as the only global superpower

i had to take a 15 min break to grab something to eat in the middle of writing this hahaha

By the way, so far the US has interfered against any country which has either tried to ditch the petrodollar in the past or just had some other significant strategical advantage which the US wanted to exploit (the whole middle east pretty much and others), by doing that they've made sure that first - their huge expenses in their military are properly circulating and second - after wrecking havock in those countries the US pushed it's own governments and made dozens and dozens of various concession agreements for all sorts of different public services and sectors, which means that they received huge chunks of the whole infrastructure of those countries for almost nothing and made huge profit out of it.

smh @Benzzzy

the truth can be autistic at times indeed

given a better point of view I'm completely up to rethink what I said tbh, that's just how I see the situation as of right now judging by the actions of both the US and the rest of the world

I truly do not take any side, not of the EU, not of the US, not of the potential enemies of the US, that's just the way I see things right now based on observing.
@_ʀᴇɪɴɴ [Deleted] it's indeed true that if Russia were to engage war against Europe and the US didn't back up EU, then we would suffer huge losses

and we will perhaps see russia taking back whole Ukraine and the baltic penisula while the rest of europe is unable to move a finger because of fear

cya

The problem is that the US has made a couple of mistakes which made EU lose it's trust towards them

First, the US was spying on various EU leaders, including Merkel and they did not even deny this, second, looking at the situation from a realistic point of view, the mastermind behind the operations in Syria which caused a pretty big problem with the refuugees situation in Europe and kind of gave the spark which turned ISIS in a fire, is the US. And third - Trump, well, when you compare Putin and Trump, I kind of see Putin as a leader which truly gives off this feeling that he is the one that has power and will use it if necessary, and I see Trump as a spoiled autistic kid which believes in the flath-earth theory

@Benzzzy nah, u aint a kid <:deepfriedlmao:518150427338997792>

Technically, the EU can survive an eventual war with Russia even if the US doesn't really back us up, Poland, Belarus, the Baltic countries, Ukraine and eventually perhaps Finland will most likely be sacrificed by Western EU however for this to happen. Russia aint dumb enough to try to win a war with whole Europe at once. Several countries, such as for example Hungary, Serbia, Bulgaria(?) in EU will either not fight at all for EU or may even side with Russia and this will further discourage Western EU to go to war. Russia's influence over EU in that situation would be huge and I doubt the US will just lay back tbh

Russia was siding with Assad in order to fight ISIS, otherwise ISIS would have taken complete control over Syria

not that big of a threat when it comes to raw military strength

but they have a lot of strategical influence and eventual allies

USA's main forces are in USA mainland and dispatching all of them will require time

while Russia is just knocking on EU's door

@Deleted User that's actually true to be fair, I dont think that the leaders of any of the major countries that can cause a domino effect and lead to WW3 is dumb enough to do it

but there's always the chance of some sort of escalation

I judge a coutry by it's actions

and by the outcome of the actions

Australia

Kangaroos, the ton of deadly animals, the nice hot temperatures during the whole year, the beaches, surfing & the coral reef

It is ! One of the cleanest, best structured, crime-free and welcoming countries in EU

Let's say that I do think that everyone which passes a psychological test and a background check should be allowed to buy & own a gun

Loopholes of any sort shouldn't exist though