Amid coronavirus chaos, Russian spies see opportunity: Intelligence assessment

I hate to say it, but I often wonder how long we will sustain? I have a feeling we will implode by then as well. We might be still be the USA, but it will be in name only. The reason I say that, is we have a large portion of our population that not only lacks pride in the nation, but has disdain for it. We have people who are buying in on the ideology of extreme socialism, the kind that embraced Russia, when it was the USSR. We have politicians who currently are so polarized that the majority of the people is their least concern. One side wants to create complete havoc. Many states are enacting laws to make it harder to hold criminals accountable. One side believes that the welfare of foreign nationals are more important than our own citizens. The other side believes in laws that empower and continue to enrich the nations most monetary elite. No one is making any that benefit those in the middle. It seems that the only people on the far fringes of the spectrum benefit. Either a bunch of free stuff forever to the extreme poor, with no way for them to escape out. Laws that allow multi-billionaires continue to see their wealth grow well beyond unprecedented. The middle class sits back and lets it happen. The middle class are content as long as they can buy a $400 80" 4K TV to adorn their slap board cookie cutter 3500 sq ft house in the "burbs." With this COVID thing we can see the strategic impact that analysts have been saying for years with the lack of domestic manufacturing capability, because we sent it all to the PRC. Also with this whole thing you can the true colors of politics on how the stimulus could not be passed by both sides unless their special interests were taken care of.

I could go on, but those are the things I see and I don't anticipate them going away anytime soon.

Rome did not fall due to an outside invader. It fell from within.

Lt Col (Join to see) - We have been through that cycle before in the 1970's. President Ronald Reagan turned it around in the 1980's and got most of the United States back on the same sheet of music. Trump is not a great unifier like Reagan was due to Trumps personality. However, Trumps run for President has swung the door wide open for other future non-politicans and some decent leaders to run for POTUS. Look at Mark Cuban, he never would have considered running for POTUS until Trump made it in. Now he is running around mentioning it as a possibility it conditions are right. The other thing I would mention is Cable TV News makes some moderate positions you mention above seem to be really extreme when actually they are moderate positions with defined limits vs. unlimited. However you can't really report on all the caveats in a sound bite. For example, Wisconsin offered free tuition to in state residents of lower income for two years. My Sister fell for it and was bandying it all around Facebook at what a great idea it was, blah, blah, blah. She never read the program. It was paying for tuition only. Dorm room, meals, books and other fees were still to be paid by the lower income folks. Additionally they had to maintain like a 3.0 or 3.5 GPA. Which if you look at the stats only some in the lower income brackets due to past lack of support can maintain. So the program was a complete charade in my opinion but folks fell for it including my Sister until I spelled it out for her and told her that would only help maybe 10-20% of the lower income folks, not much higher than that and it was more a public relations piece for the University to get them National publicity.

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China, South Korea, Japan, Australia, Israel, France, the UK, and Germany to name a few additional nations states at he forefront of intelligence gathering against the US.