When Romney says that Russia is the US’s #1 geopolitical foe, he is absolutely right. If we use the words “geopolitical” and “foe” in their original meaning, then Romney’s statement is unassailable.
A geopolitical foe is somebody who has the strategy and the accompanying tactics, the resources and the ideology aimed specifically at defeating you in a fight for global dominance. Anybody who watches Russian newscasts and reads the Russian press for a couple of days will discover that this goal is discussed very openly and directly.
However, the realization that Russia is battling (not going to battle but is doing it already and has been for a while) the US for world dominance shouldn’t scare us too much. Russians are not anywhere near to being tempted to nuke the planet just to make a point. They will do a lot of nasty things in their struggle for global power (as everybody else who briefly possessed that power has) but they are not a threat to the existence of this planet.
Somebody else is.
North Korea should be on our minds all the time. North Koreans are about to get completely desperate. The whole country is a sect of religious fanatics armed with nuclear weapons. Starvation makes them light-headed and quite delusional. And when a religious sect realizes that there is really no hope of converting the rest of the world to its faith and the battle on the temporal plane is lost, then what does it do? If Jim Jones had nuclear weapons, what do you think he’d do?
We almost never hear anything in the media about North Korea save for “Ha, ha, these folks are so funny, they worship that ugly fat fellow with a weird haircut.” We forget, however, that we are only safe from a nuclear annihilation while everybody who possesses these weapons values life enough not to want to lose it.
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