putin's also done something right out of a history book and purged all of his naval officers in the baltic sea for reasons of corruption and insubordination. his officers had refused orders to fire on and scramble against american military presences in the baltic, resulting in their current state of unemployment.
"The U.S. outpaces all other nations in military expenditures. World military spending totaled more than $1.6 trillion in 2015. The U.S. accounted for 37 percent of the total. U.S. military expenditures are roughly the size of the next seven largest military budgets around the world, combined."
The US military is years if not decades ahead of Russia.
We have kinetic space weapons, high powered lasers that can bust nukes before they get anywhere near us,
CRISPR designed bio weapons can destroy life just as easily as we can reverse it. We can barrage them with nuclear explosion generated tsunamis that spread radioactive water and devastate their port infrastructures, we can EMP their entire continent.
Putin is all about playing the tough guy, not very different from Dennis Rodman's Pal. He would never actually order such an attack on the US. All he does is have pilots buzz US ships and do barrel rolls over our planes.
