As the US empire declines and the danger of it's flailing whip tail is handled, let's hope that come November 4th, that the USA is finally permitted to actually talk and negotiate with Russia. There is a qualitative difference between the US and Russian militaries, which is firmly in the nature of the difference between fighting for empire vs. fighting for your family. There is a righteousness with Russians, inextricable in fact, which is cultural but more importantly a spiritual advantage which today sadly many Westerners struggle to even comprehend, though thanks to Soros' home grown "all American" color revolution now in full swing, there are signs, some peripheral flickers of hope that some folks are experiencing a dawning awareness of such things... continue to pray, muffas… Russia Steals Everything. Andrei Martyanov, Sunday, September 20, 2020 https://smoothiex12.blogspot.com/2020/09/russia-steals-everything.html ... US is desperate to stop advanced weapons' development in Russia, and, in his interview to Russia's ultra-liberal Kommersant (in Russian), Marshall Billingslea wasted 10 minutes of my valuable life time bloviating on the matters of START treaty extension, threatening Russia with new....whatever, and speaking in pseudo-strategic platitudes, which Russia, most likely, will ignore. Why shouldn't she, especially knowing that no discussion on serious matters is possible with the US. Non-agreement-capable, period. BTW, one of the funny features about Billingslea--his original Bachelor's Degree is in...History of Arts. Get it, boys and girls? His formative humanly and academically years he spent studying useless crap, which provides zero background for any productive activity. ... NO US serviceman even fought in defense of his country, town, family. This is the main, metaphysical, reason why US top brass, once a generation which saw serious war departed, could never grasp an essence of the warfare, because they have no grasp what would happen if they lose not just the war, the US has a great record of that, but what they treasure in life. This is the obstacle which cannot be overcome by inventing some new fighting doctrine or by regurgitating same ol' and beaten to death strategic and operational truisms. One has to start thinking differently but that is precisely what is lacking in the decision-making circles in the US today, where reality and fantasy long ago lost a clear demarcation line between the two. Well, it is inevitable in the country where one of the main voices in defining military policy include such people as a graduate of a History of Arts program or a comic and con-artist. I guess, in the world of fantasy and fakes those skills are sufficient.