Given that you include it in your predictions, I would not put much stock in them. You're confusing domestic propaganda and saber-rattling with actual assessments of geopolitics. It's up there with feeling threatened by a communist Grenada.
As for Russia, it's been a year, and it's still having quite a time in failing to invade the poorest country in Europe. There's a colossal gap between how you think the world stands, and how it actually stands. Russia's a failing Potemkin village, whose only asset of note is 10,000 nuclear weapons.
There are only three kinds wars that will ever be waged between the US and Russia.
1. A proxy conflict which one or both of the sides aren't actually deeply invested in. (<---- As of 2023, we are here.)
2. None at all.
3. End-the-world Armageddon.
None of these are a good fit for the rest of your narrative. It's just a hodgepodge of political anxieties.
Given that you include it in your predictions, I would not put much stock in them. You're confusing domestic propaganda and saber-rattling with actual assessments of geopolitics. It's up there with feeling threatened by a communist Grenada.
As for Russia, it's been a year, and it's still having quite a time in failing to invade the poorest country in Europe. There's a colossal gap between how you think the world stands, and how it actually stands. Russia's a failing Potemkin village, whose only asset of note is 10,000 nuclear weapons.
There are only three kinds wars that will ever be waged between the US and Russia.
1. A proxy conflict which one or both of the sides aren't actually deeply invested in. (<---- As of 2023, we are here.)
2. None at all.
3. End-the-world Armageddon.
None of these are a good fit for the rest of your narrative. It's just a hodgepodge of political anxieties.