Newsmax Russiaphobia.

Here's an extraordinary anti-Russia piece by Christopher Ruddy, Editor in Chief of Newsmax.

But only one country today poses an existential threat to the United States.

And that country is Russia.

Despite having an economy the size of Mexico, and a conventional army that may be on par with it, Russia continues to host the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

The strategic understanding of these fools is that a nation has to have thousands of nuclear weapons before it becomes an existential threat to the United States. However, two EMP bursts would in all likelihood shut down the U.S. and this is also well within the capability of China and probably North Korea. I'm not up on the Indian and Pakistani nuclear capabilities but I'm sure by now they include ICBMs. If Israel doesn't have ICBMs, and I see no reason to doubt that it does, it has several diesel subs that are undoubtedly nuclear capable. So the size of a country's arsenal is pretty much irrelevant after they can field five missiles.

But Ruddy is about hysteria and deflection:

• The U.S. doesn't spread chaos everywhere,
• Ukraine is not one of messes America has created.
• The U.S. isn't "spreading a liberal social culture that fundamentally wants to change traditional society,"
• Ukraine is a democratic nation "that never provoked or threatened [Putin's] nation in any way."
• Ukraine as a sovereign state should have the right to join NATO (regardless of Russian strategic concerns and NATO bullshit),
• Russia's a "real threat" and Putin has "global ambitions," and
• U.S. vital interests are involved.

I'm fed up with the childish "saintly United States and beastly Russians" view of the world. The U.S. regime change success in Ukraine in 2014, the 14,000 deaths caused by the Ukrainians in the Donbass after that, the Minsk agreements signed by Ukraine but ignored by it, and the contemptuous treatment of reasonable, timely Russian proposals for a new European security arragnement are just invisible to these people. But we, the Canadians, and the Brits fawn over this freakish, unstable country with its bizarre Azov formations.