The threat is always looming. Do you think fighting a war with another nuclear power makes that threat go away, be diminished, etc.? War between nuclear powers is supposedly inconceivable yet it's happening before our eyes.
>the leadership in the right-wing side of our party, who have had a clear connection to the Russians
The only clear connection is through the false allegations manufactured by the left. Why do they want this war so bad?
>destroying our government, and ruining the shred of reputation America had in the process.
The right is presently trying to fix all the damage done over decades by politicians from both parties. We were on an unsustainable path leading to ruin, and now maybe the country can be saved. It won't be painless but it must be done.
Fighting proxy wars against Russia is kind of our bread and butter, we've been doing it for decades and nearly always win.
Russia on the other hand has had far more success with injecting propaganda in Western institutions, recruiting assets, and getting people in the west to parrot their propaganda.
Hollywood makes a movie about every other year about the blacklist under McCarthyism as if this was all in their paranoid imaginations. The truth is that the Soviets DID get numerous people into both high ranking positions within the US government and other influential positions in American life, especially in entertainment and higher education, the effects of which linger to this day.
The major proxy wars against the USSR were Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Korea was a stale mate, Vietnam was a loss, and then there's Afghanistan. It was certainly a victory, but I think that was more about the Afghans than us - the same reason we'd also go on to lose to them. They are one ridiculously hard and hardy people with completely unbreakable spirits. And of course the exact people we trained there would go on to form Al Qaeda, and generally form the backbone of radical Islam, which adds some further asterisks to that 'victory.'
Similarly the Soviets have pretty much always sucked at propaganda. The idea of a worldwide worker revolution attracted no more than fringe contingents. But US 'propaganda' of freedom of speech, capitalism, and so on played a key role in the eventual decline of the USSR. I remember listening to an ostensibly stoic Russian chess grandmaster who lived through the fall of the USSR. Him slightly choking up while talking about how grown men were tearing up over Donald Duck media, which had become a symbol of the end of one era and the beginning of another, was extremely memorable. Similarly this [1] is media from the opening of the first McDonalds in the USSR. They served some 30,000 people on day 1 at exceptionally high (relative) costs, with McDonalds flags working as thinly veiled proxies for flags of capitalism.
>the leadership in the right-wing side of our party, who have had a clear connection to the Russians
The only clear connection is through the false allegations manufactured by the left. Why do they want this war so bad?
>destroying our government, and ruining the shred of reputation America had in the process.
The right is presently trying to fix all the damage done over decades by politicians from both parties. We were on an unsustainable path leading to ruin, and now maybe the country can be saved. It won't be painless but it must be done.