Russia is at a disadvantage in its struggle against the US Empire as the US only wants to destroy, while Russia wants to build. Most governments are afraid of antagonizing the US, but the advantage for Russia is that the US is falling apart economically, socially, and politically. The US economy is still huge, but financial and social wealth are conflated into a misleading index of pseudo-prosperity. The US is being bled to death by the imperial parasite feeding on it.