Russia doesn’t have to respond in force to American bombs, and it doesn’t
have to engage the U.S. forces directly. All it has to do is outlast the
Americans. That’s all that Assad or a successor to him have to do.
The Taliban has shown in Afghanistan that Americans can be defeated, just
as Ho Chi Minh showed in Vietnam. Before that, both China and North Korea
showed that American forces can be neutralized.
America’s leaders are living on myths of American superiority. Trump’s
shiny new and smart missiles are a graphic example of this kind of thinking, as
is Obama’s “American exceptionalism” and Rumsfeld’s “shock and awe”. They’re
all living in a dream world.
America is committing suicide by degrees. Russia need only exercise
patience as we kill ourselves. What are thought to be nickel and dime wars and
engagements turn out to be long lasting sponges that soak up enormous
resources. Russia and China need only wait.
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The U.S. government has outmoded second generation military forces that are
incapable of conducting 4GW (fourth generation warfare). The U.S. leadership is
poor. It doesn’t think ahead. It focuses on unimportant side issues. It acts
emotionally. It’s motivated at times by moral considerations that are
irrelevant, and then at other times it ignores moral issues that are of great
importance. To top it off, the U.S. makes huge strategic blunders, as in Korea,
Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. American taxpayers are
stretched thin paying for expensive military hardware that cannot deal with
foes who are prepared to fight the Americans for 100 years if they have to.
Americans are losing the spirit, morale and trust to maintain a far-flung empire.
Russia doesn’t have to engage the U.S. to the point where World War III
starts. If it understands America’s weaknesses, it can wait while we
self-destruct.
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Michael S. Rozeff [send him mail]
is a retired Professor of Finance living in East Amherst, New York. He is the
author of the free e-book Essays on American Empire: Liberty vs. Domination
and the free e-book The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline.
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