Is Donald Trump a traitor?!

[Rev. Rye]

Nukes are defensive.   You can’t use nukes to take territory or subvert foreign governments.  Conventional superiority and effective intelligence/covert operation is what it takes to assert global influence.  Nuke simply means Russia can’t be steam rolled militarily even when NATO has overwhelming conventional superiority.  Otherwise nukes don’t allow Russian to do much Russian normally would not be able to to for the lack of its won conventional superiority.

Russia is but a third rate power that can’t be concquereored but which really can’t conquer by force anything beyond what remains of its former sphere of influence, and have no propspect of ever being able to conquer those by force either.

But it does have effective leadership and effective intelligence/cover operation branch that seeks to compensate.  That will undoubtedly score a few successes, not the least of which is to take down the US by installing trump.   But Russia remains a weak power that would lack the capability to follow up and take full advantage of the openings created.

 I can only assume we have two very different ideas of "retaliate viciously", because my understanding of that phrase (namely, war) when applied to Russia/US relations (and Russia's end thereof) would likely have been treated by Russia as defensive.