And just like the Cold War, Russia can't actually compete in an arms race without going broke.

The US wasnt 30 plus trillion dollars in debt during the cold war, nor did it see nationwide race riots, a young non white population of over 50%, an extreme partisan divide in which half the country hates the other half more than any foreign enemy, and what are now essentially completely open borders. Plus the non Communist world had a legitimate fear of the Soviet Union that kept them on America's side. No one legitimately thinks of Putin as a serious international threat aside from shitlibs and globalist Jews that see any challenge to their hegemony as another shoah.

China will likely be the beneficiary in all this as the US empire further harms itself going after an enemy of ZOG.