Remembet how NAFTA sent all the manufacturing jobs to other countries? That was pretty profitable, but it turns out being able to make shit during a war is more useful than money. We don't have the manufacturing capacity to keep up with Russia.

Remember how capitalism and grift has made the military expensive and inefficient? Turns out that our cutting edge weapons tech is hot garbage because the money isn't going to the people and machines that do the actual making.

We're short on missiles and we don't have the tech edge anymore. We can't ramp up industry because we don't HAVE industry anymore. And the obesity epidemic has left us with a shallower pool of potential recruits or draftees, to say nothing of the political demoralization of youth.

Russia is opposite on all that stuff, and might be the most capable fighting force on the planet right now. They're just not as equipped as well for imperialism as we are.