My pleasure. Check out his blog at ClubOrlov.blogspot.com. He describes himself as a 'Connoisseur of Collapse' and is so certain of global economic collapse that he lives with his family on a boat. He revealed during this interview that he might eventually settle in Russia on the border with the Baltic States, which was a surprise. Maybe he's finally grown tired of living on a boat waiting for everything to collapse. He's very confident that Americans have seriously underestimated the Russian military and their ability to wage electronic, conventional and nuclear warfare and NATO incursion into Russian territory would certainly result in either a nuclear exchange that will end civilization (and kill millions of Americans 30 minutes after it starts) or, to deliberately avoid nuclear escalation, a bloody, protracted conventional war that NATO would lose in complete humiliation. He mentions specific weapons systems and strategies to support his very disturbing conclusions.
We assume that because we spend half our GDP on our military/industrial complex and we are constantly reassured that we are the best and the brightest and we engage in a series of wars against weaker countries which we have no chance of losing (and yet, somehow, we have anyway), that we can take on a superpower with untold advantages in innovative weaponry, the largest nuclear stockpile on earth and a military culture and history of repelling invasions by luring the invaders a few thousand kilometers into their home terrain and then slaughtering them. All of them.
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