> Russia knows that we are not going to blow up the world to save Ukraine
Therefore, ending the war as soon as possible is the moral thing to do.
Therefore, ending the war as soon as possible is the moral thing to do.
US most certainly has anti ballistic missile tech, however wasting exposing it on Russia is something that is not worth it when there are more capable nations on the line.
They have a much lower defense budget, and have been forced to actually be creative and clever about problems, as opposed to our throw-money-at-problem-ergo-win approach.
tl;dr Russia is not a fun opponent, and they culturally really enjoy statecraft so best to stick with statecraft.
no
>are laser-focused on hypersonic tech
no
>and we don't officially know how good their missile defense is
we do know. Its mediocre at best.
The thing about Russia that most people don't get is that even before all of this happened, there was no money to be made in terms of talent for stuff that requires engineering. Everyone who was smart was leaving the country so they could make much better salaries elsewhere.
They are a full scale paper tiger, none of their stuff even from cold war era is as good as the propaganda claimed.
Their only real playing card is nukes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oreshnik_(missile)
And the S550 prototypes are looking great.
> They are a full scale paper tiger
This is a bad approach to take, even if you're right.
Sure there is a 0.1% chance it may be able to hold 2 circle or one circle against F22, considering that no F22 has ever flown publicly within its full maneuverability envelope, but it sure as shit would lose to the flying supercomputer that is the F35 because BVR missiles that are smart enough to avoid countermeasures are a thing now. Some even use optical tracking.
As far as ICBM defense goes, we did this back in 2002:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_YAL-1
And you better believe that we have way more advanced shit now.
All you need to know about capability is to look at defense spending of a country in totality. Nothing beats US.