What’s worse for America

[Dill]

(01-30-2022, 01:17 PM)QueenCity Wrote: Sorry I'm just now jumping in this but from what I understand is Russia all things considered is weak. Without their Nukes they wouldn't be worth talking about.

Literally China and the U.S could stop supporting them financially and they would crumble.

Sort of weak.  

Its economy is about the size of Italy's. 

It doesn't have the "globalist" alliance power the U.S. has acquired through diplomatic leadership since WWII. 
But they punch above their weight in many other ways. Not just nukes, but sophisticated cyberattacks and an incredible
ability to affect domestic politics in many countries, especially Western Democracies.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html
https://news.yahoo.com/kremlin-tv-worries-tucker-carlson-115119091.html?fr=sycsrp_catchall

"Crumbling" Russia would not be in the interest of China, the EU or the US, however. We need their backing on other issues, like a new Iran deal, and we don't want to see a Yugoslavian-style break up of a country that spans 11 time zones and two continents.

I would argue that one reason we are having problems with Russia now is because of how we handled the break up of the USSR.
If we'd made supporting  democracy a priority, shoring up their economy and social safety net instead of shocking them into capitalism, and stopped expanding NATO, it is likely Russia and the Ukraine would both be in a better place today, not to mention the world.