Per Military Times:

Make no mistake: Experts agree that the U.S. military's globe-spanning force would clobber the Russian military in any toe-to-toe conventional fight. But modern wars are not toe-to-toe conventional fights; geography, politics and terrain inevitably give one side an advantage.

Today, the U.S. spends nearly 10 times more than Russia on national defense. The U.S. operates 10 aircraft carriers; Russia has just one. And the U.S. military maintains a broad technological edge and a vastly superior ability to project power around the world.

Toe to toe, a conventional war between the U.S. and Russia would be no contest. But few believe any conflict would play out like that.
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Russia remains weak, according to many traditional criteria. But it is now developing some key technologies, new fighting tactics and a brazen geopolitical strategy that is

aggressively undermining America's 25-year claim to being the only truly global superpower. The result: Russia is unexpectedly re-emerging as America's chief military rival.
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In case you forgot, Rich, before the first Gulf War broke out, people were saying the US would have difficulty dealing with Iraq. Then operations started, and we walked through them like sh!t through a goose.

Russia doesn't want a war with us - and we don't want one with them. I think, in the end, cooler head will prevail, and this will blow over.

At least I hope it will.