“Our Army is tired and needs lots of new equipment and more troops and armor to fight Russia, which would end up on multitude fronts. At 500K men we just do not have the land force.”

Are you SERIOUS? Sending American Marines in to go toe-to-toe with Russians? That’s insane. Not that they couldn’t do it, but why bother?

There are so many other soft power ways of twisting the bear’s tail and kicking its stool out from under it.

I think simply laughing at their bluster and pointing at their pathetic soldiers who are so sad they have to steal toilet paper will escalate things quite nicely.

If Ivan wants to nuke someone, I personally am tired of 50 years of hunkering under the desk at school and conducting evacuation drills. We will *not* send our Marines in to do NATO’s job (again). But if Ivan wants to go nuke to nuke, we’ll see how many each has and whether or not they’ve been maintained to the point of actually going off and doing what they’re supposed to do.

So the Bear is angry and Putin is crazy. So am I.