Looks like Hillary Clinton's "reset button" re-set Russo-American relations all the way back to circa 1979:
A Russian defense minister wants his country's official military doctrine rewritten to allow for a pre-emptive nuclear attack against the United States and NATO, the Russian-language news agency Interfax reports.
Russian Army General Yury Yakubov said the doctrine, last revised in 2010, should be updated to classify the United States and other NATO countries as the "main enemy" of Russia, Interfax reported on Wednesday.
Yakubov, who is from the defense ministry's inspector general's office, also said it is time "to hash out the conditions under which Russia could carry out a pre-emptive strike with the Russian Strategic Rocket Forces," according to a translation of the general's remarks by the English-language Moscow Times.
Y'see, the reason why strength and firm resolve keep the peace, and weakness and fecklessness and confusion hasten war, is all in the perceptions of would-be aggressors of what regional and global ambitions of theirs are possible and attainable. If a strong and confident America, led by a POTUS who declares, "Where, then, is the road to peace? It's a simple answer after all. You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay, there is a point beyond which they must not advance,'" stands stoutly and squarely in the way of those ambitions, those would-be aggressors will be substantially less likely to risk armed conflict with the United States to try and reach them. If, however, a weak, divided, prostrated America, led by a POTUS who believes that would-be aggressors give a frog's fat leg about "international isolation," that "historic" speeches are a superior substitute for tank armies, air armadas, an ocean of carrier battle groups, and more ICBMs than the number of candles on my last birthday cake (MUCH more), and who believes in America's enemies more than America's allies and America itself, doesn't just retreat, but flees from its perch of global leadership as it crumbles, leaving a trail of cultural fragments, pink slips, and red ink to be easily followed right back to its defenseless redoubt, those same would-be aggressors begin to see a whole world of possibilities, and no reason on Earth why they shouldn't pursue them with wild, reckless abandon.
Think of it like this: It took the U.S. 46 years to win the Cold War - less than a decade once we started fighting it to win - and it has taken Barack Obama just over five years to resurrect it. And with the timid, face-saving, ass-covering, not-meaningful-but-just-for-public-consumption, little-marshmallow-feet steps he's taking to "counter" Russian aggression against Ukraine before an actual NATO member is next on Czar Vlad's menu - i.e. his risible NATO "rapid reaction force," which is nothing but four thousand hunks of cannon fodder for Putin's tanks to roll over while O sounds the next retreat - one couldn't blame the ex-KGB spook for entertaining visions of his raising the Russian flag over the White House before Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi can beat him to it.
If you ever wondered what Jimmy Carter's second term would have looked like, and thanked God you never had to find out, your gratitude to the Almighty looks to have been....premature.
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