US Can't Deal with Defeat
consortiumnews.com
In the U.S., the strongest collective memory of America’s wars of choice is the desirability – and ease – of forgetting them. So it will be when we look at a ruined Ukraine in the rear-view mirror, writes Michael Brenner. By Michael Brenner Special to Consortium News The United States is be

The focal shift from Russia in Europe to China in Asia is less a mechanism for coping with defeat than the pathological reaction of a country that, feeling a gnawing sense of diminishing prowess, can manage to do nothing more than try one final fling at proving to itself that it still has the right stuff — since living without that exalted sense of self is intolerable.

  • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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    1 year ago

    Meanwhile Russia is doing strikes with a functional hypersonic missile program

    I've never heard of the Russians deploying hypersonic weapons in US media. Is there a source for this, or are we just assuming based on their ability to penetrate western anti-missile shields?

    Also, Jesus Christ. Imagine investing the last 30 years in anti-missile technology and having it all go straight into the trash bin with a marginal improvement in flight times.