Down The Memory Lane.

From 31 years ago and the letter of the Officer X which was published in Time magazine.

A number of major differences have emerged recently between Russia and the U.S. So whose fault is it that the specter of cold war might be coming back? We believe the political and military leadership is to blame for pursuing a line of total camaraderie with the U.S. A strong America promised billions of dollars in support, always dictating its own conditions. They were sometimes humiliating, but Yeltsin, Foreign Minster Andrei Kozyrzev, and Prime Minister Victor Chernomyrdin accepted them without a murmur. Now Yeltsin realizes he has given away too much, too fast. He knows patriotism and a healthy nationalism will be the watchwords in the next election, so he is trying to change horses and has made a number of statements against U.S. policies. 

What Americans don’t understand is that while they have been secretly trying to achieve the collapse and disintegration of Russia — though they take pains to deny it — they have only increased the possibility that the tired, exhausted and embittered Russian armed forces may one day explode, with dire consequences — not only for the U.S. but also for the world. American and NATO military bases still encircle Russia, despite declarations about the end of the cold war. The U.S. military budget keeps growing, along with Washington’s combat strength. We monitor this closely. Only naive people who do not know Russia might believe that our military will accept the position of second best in the world. We seek to be equal to the strongest. Yeltsin has denied us our most precious professional feeling: a sense of pride in our own might. The military will never forgive him for that.

"Americans" meaning US military-political top do not understand, they are incompetent, corrupt and have no courage to face the reality of Russia, warfare and US position as just another great power with rather limited resources when it comes to real war. Nobody, with the exception of soy boys, buys US military propaganda anymore.