As Caity has already pointed out in a previous article, this new cold war with Russia is just as much about China as it is about anything else. Since the end of WWII, the USA has been THE superpower of the world, and since the fall of the USSR, it's been the ONLY superpower. Russia, as it is now, cannot fight us with regular military power and everyone knows it. Their military budget is less than what we INCREASED ours by. The only area where than CAN match us in power is with nukes. I dunno about anyone else but I don't wanna see what would happen if the cold war suddenly turned into a hot war.

This is all about global hegemony and the USA maintaining it's empire. They don't run the world like they used to. China is on the path towards becoming the dominant economic force in the world. TPTB in the USA see the Eurasia market becoming the central focus of the world and they can't stand the idea of not having the world run through and by the USA.

Since the USA can't control the world economically the way they used to, now they do it through sheer military might. Problem is, this is not the sort of solution that can last long term. Also since the end of WWII, far right wing economic policies have taken back every gain for the people made in the New Deal and we are quickly headed towards another Great Depression level economic crash.

What we're facing here is an aging empire on the verge of economic collapse and the loss of their role as the world leader in everything but they still have the strongest military ever created and are nuclear saber rattling with the only other nuclear superpower in the world because they believe that it will somehow maintain their empire. I really, really hope that I'm wrong about this, but I don't see the USA giving up it's empire without blowing up the world first. If they can't have it, nobody will. History tells us that when empires fall, it's an ugly affair.

To say we are royally fucked is the understatement of all time.