Big Bad Russia? Gimme a Break

I don’t get the kafuffle being raised over alleged connections between the White House and the Russians. It seems to me that having Russia as a friend makes more sense than having her as an enemy. Haven’t we had enough tension with the cold war that has continued from the days of the Soviet Union to now?

War makes profits for an elite few, but peace makes profits for many, just like profits make peace for many. Trump knows this.

The tenacious propagation of the suspicions that somehow Russians affected the outcome of the U.S. election seems to me to be Democrat disparagement. Those people look like sore losers.  

There are always war mongers in the USA ---- people who want the American public to believe that the USA has enemies that threaten the Republic (or should that be "Empire"?). Realistically, what country could possibly threaten the USA in any substantive military way? It serves the purposes of some to paint Russia as the Enemy. Russia, with its GDP that is smaller than metro New York City. Russia which has no navy capable of operating globally. Russia without the ability to launch any substantial global airlift. How, pray tell, is Russia going to invade the USA?

Let’s bellyache about Russian annexation of the Crimea. Empress Catherine bought the region in the 18^th century to obtain a warm water port. Crimea, before the recent annexation, voted 90% in favor of joining Russia. But, are we told this through the pop news media?

Maybe one day, the USA will decide that pissing away a trillion dollars a year on a largely unjustifiable military is bad economics.