The only way Russia can be a threat, is if the Warmongers here make them a threat.
This is the essence of the issue. People don't understand the
political uses of fear - and how that fear is used to grow government power.
Consider the War on Terrorism.
We should have made our hunt for Bin Laden a quiet police matter. Instead, Bush 43, through his never-ending projection of fear, turned 15 guys with box cutters into a cosmic power, capable of toppling the USA, and therefore equivalent in power to the USA. He was the best recruiting tool Al Qaeda ever had.
We made Al Qaeda powerful by putting them on the news every ten seconds. Do you know how proud Al Qaeda was that FOX News was broadcasting color coded fear alerts every second of every day? Al Qaeda hit the jackpot because they found a force inside the USA willing to achieve their goals by proxy, which was to make our nation scared. The Republican Party, in some odd way, became an arm of Al Qaeda because they constantly reminded us how much danger we were in; they constantly reminded us of Al Qaeda's power. (What more could a band of crippled cave monkeys hope for? We gave them the headline of every news story for years. We gave them the lead story on every broadcast for years. This is what they wanted, to be the center of our lives and keep us in fear. The Republican party kept these bastards in business.)
The whole point of Terrorism is to make people scared. This is why Israel never gives press to terrorists; rather, they quietly hunt and kill them - but they never let terrorists destroy their nation through fear.
Israel realizes that to give terrorists press, is to give them exactly what they want.
The goal of terrorism is to scare people into giving up their values - to make the enemy collapse internally through fear. To do this they need a willing accomplice on the inside, a political party willing to spread fear. The fact that Bush shredded the Constitution with the Patriot Act, and suspended Habeas Corpus, and created a domestic spying program is a greater victory than Al Qaeda could have ever hoped for. We destroyed our freedom because we had a political party that benefited by spreading fear. (The 2004 elections had mushroom clouds and Bin Laden's face on nearly every campaign ad. Fear wins elections.
Could Al Qaeda have hoped for more - to have their interest in spreading fear align so perfectly with the Republican interest in winning elections?)
"Hi, I'm from the government and I'm here to protect you"
Destroying our Constitution and erecting a surveillance state is
far more dangerous than 15 guys with box cutters, who got insanely lucky by catching an incompetent administration asleep at the switch. But make no mistake. The goal of terrorism is to destroy a society with fear. They want us to trade our freedom for the illusion of safety -
and Republicans always believe we can be more safe by giving Government more power.
The GOP and the War on Terrorism is coming back in 2016. If you thought the first Patriot Act was bad, you ain't seen nothing yet. These people benefit from fear. They win elections with fear. If they can rekindle the Soviet Threat, there is no telling how much fear they will spread, and how big government will grow to save us. God Help Us.