Here’s the problem I see with neolex’s thinking, that war must perforce be a short affair soon ended. Russia obtains her goals, and America accepts them. Because the U.S. doesn’t have the depth.

Wrong. In terms of resources the United States has much more depth than Russia does. We have the greater population, the greater industrial capacity. Where Russia has trouble keeping her infrastructure up even without a major war, we have the resources, should we chose to use it, to not only ramp up for a world wide confict, but expand our infrastructure at the same time. Let us remember that in World War Two the United States wound up with an expanded industrial plant when all other nations saw their’s shrink.

Russia is in the position of Japan in 1941, trusting in their myths about America and in the rightness of their cause. As the Japanese did before Pearl Harbor, the Russians have paid too much attention to the nattering nabobs of negativity, who have long had a rotting despite for those who aren’t as culturally and intellectually inbred as they.

Will it be a hard war? Yes. Could it be a long war? Yes. Will we win? Yes, because we get hard core when we get riled, and Russia is a hollow beast with a tough exterior, but no real meat inside.

We’re now in the final act of the Napoleonic Wars and the world is going to be forever changed by what happens in the next five or six years.