If the US goes to war with Russia, Russia will win. The reason is simple: ideology never wins over national identity. This has been true at all times. Whenever an ideological army tried to conquer a certain people, that people always won. Even within the framework of the ideological proxy wars of the 1920s, combat actions were defined as competitions between peoples. Communist North Vietnam presented its war with South Vietnam as one in which Vietnamese patriots were fighting European-American imperialism and manipulation. The Soviet Union failed in the early years of World War II for a variety of reasons, but one of them was that early propaganda tried to present the struggle as a fight between fascism and communism. The Soviet peasants did not give a damn about the world proletariat. When the political messages were rethought in the context of the "Great Patriotic War", the Russians became more active and strengthened their resolve. And there are many such examples.
The United States has been deliberately changed. American identity is rooted in post-nationalism. It is ideologically globalist, combining the Marxist, on the one hand, and market-capitalist, on the other. In doing so, American political and cultural leaders have created an ideology that replaces God with cultural Marxist social elements ranging from homosexuality and transgenderism to subjectivity versus objectivity in all aspects of decision making. At the same time, free market capitalism has been weaponized as a process of democratization, creating a world of consumers dependent on cheap knick-knacks and material comforts that go beyond sacrificing the national interest. This can be seen from the outsourcing of production to the massive importation of cheap labor. The guardians of this new American dystopia are the Department of Justice, the FBI, the IRS and the Department of Defense.
Russia, generally speaking, has none of these problems. We Russians know that we are Russians. Russia does not aspire to a globalist new world order. Russia strives to have a regional hegemony that protects Russia's interests. In other words, unlike the globalist ideologues led by the Americans and their Western allies, the Russians are nationalists. In a war, we need nationalism to win.
Some will point to Russia's lackluster military success in Ukraine. This struggle - Ukrainian nationalists (led by a globalist government in Kyiv) against Russian nationalists - is important to consider in the context of a future struggle between the globalist West and nationalist Russia. The two scenarios are incompatible.
The United States government has passed a large spending bill to support the Ukrainian armed forces. The European Union has taken similar initiatives. Despite overwhelming global support for Ukraine, Russia achieves nearly all of its strategic goals. Russian troops bleed the Ukrainian army, systematically attack the Ukrainian infrastructure. Russia deprived Ukraine of access to the sea.
As a matter of fact, now the Russian Air Force is cautiously operating in the airspace of Ukraine, all enemy air defense positions are being opened (with the help of martyrs). Once we get freedom of air travel, I suspect that Kyiv will capitulate.
Americans have spent the last two decades fighting Stone Age mountaineers and suicide bombers - Afghan, Iraqi, or Muslim nationalists. The American ideologists of the globalists were defeated. Russia prepared for another war.
The United States is an accidental empire. It has risen to superpower status in the vacuum created by European fratricide. The two world wars that affected the imperialist states in Europe led to massive social and political upheavals. Suddenly, Europeans were flooded with modern democratic values where there used to be a socially divided order. Having lost two successive generations of warriors, Europe lacked the stability of a strong patriarchal leadership. As a result, by 1950 Europe had become a hyperfeminized continent. The US has simply entered a power void with nuclear weapons.
The problem that arose soon after was a misinterpretation of "why" the American Empire became a superpower. Americans across the political spectrum believed that their freedoms led to their dominance. Accordingly, they believed that the more freedom, the more power. This expanded into degenerate, immoral concepts such as sexual "freedoms".
These concepts were intertwined with the belief that the democratic United States had defeated the anti-democratic Soviet Union. Thus, within the United States and the rest of the West, a movement arose to spread democracy within the country - within the Republican United States - and beyond its borders, especially in the Islamic world. More freedoms and more democracy were the supposed two pillars of American power.