It's about capital, natural resources and high technology, dude.
Yeah the paranoia about them is stupid. But i fact checked. The population decline will happen but populations from ukraine, central asia and the enlargement of the eurasia union and any reprodictice technologies the chinese develop will be surely needed and invested in. The male life expectsncy is 66 years old and for women 77. It is really region specific
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_federal_subjects_of_Russia_by_life_expectancy
There birthrate has been rising and us higher than eastern european southern or central european countries. France only has higher birthrate primarily due to the arab immigrant population.
Russia has censorship of leftist or ultra fascist extreme neo nazi racist views. But this cultural destroying left agenda stuff is not promoted.
It's in a bad state, trying to raise the pension age so that most men will never live to collect says quite a bit and they will soon be forced to downsize their military considerably. I'm never worried or paranoid about Russia, they're fucked and I feel for the general populace more than I look at them as some kind of geopolitical nemesis. On the contrary, I want to completely curb stomp CCP controlled China for even daring to challenge the future of American dominance, especially the anti-competitive way they've set about doing it.
The US is a massive continent-sized virtual island which possesses the most productive region of contiguous arable land on the planet in the greater midwest with some 12,000 miles of interconnected navigable waterways (more than the rest of the world combined), a surplus of accessible natural resources and wide-open entry to the world's two largest oceans on both ends to reach across the globe and the distance provided by them are bonus security buffers thrown in free of expense.
At the most fundamental level, 'national security' of a sovereign nation comes first and foremost from being both food secure and energy independent. America's biggest geopolitical rival is neither. On the otherhand, the US is the world's largest agriculture exporter by some distance. Earlier this year it became the world's largest producer of oil and gas, now pushing the brink and will blow past net exporter status for the first time in 75 years and will be for decades.
In terms of science, technology and innovation there are no weak spots: from research universities (Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Caltech) to national labs (JPL, Los Alamos, Lincoln, LBNL, LLNL) to intramural agencies (NIH, NASA, DARPA, DOE) to private industry (Applied Materials, Boeing, IBM, Intel, KLA-Tencor, Lockheed Martin, Micron, Northrop Grumman, Qualcomm, SpaceX). High quality academic science output is
twice that of the European Union. So lets hear again how "stupid" America is.
The US holds a preeminent position in virtually all global high technology sectors spanning advanced materials, aerospace, biotech, computing and information, energy, life science, and last but not least and in fact first:
semiconductors, which are the crown jewel of all modern technology and enable advances in virtually everything else. The "trade" dispute with China is entirely to do with the semiconductor industry, which America itself invented and spawned.
