If you were Russia...?

The U.S. dwarfs both China and Russia militarily both in terms of spending and technology. Russia was forced to develop nuclear weapons as a result of aggressive posturing by the U.S. most notably the nuclear attacks on Japan which served no real strategic purpose beyond a show of strength to the USSR.(shocking I know, but confirmed by government doents recently made public). Russia presents zero military threat to the U.S. and yet the CIA are brazenly interfering in Russia's domestic affair even trying to bring Georgia into NATO. Russias cold war military build up was a reaction forced upon them by the U.S. arms build up and was a quite deliberate ploy by the U.S. to force Russia into an arms race that would bankrupt them. Your government have a hugely successful propoganda machine that takes imaginary threats and ramps them up to ridiculous extremes in order to manufacture consent for actions that would ordinarily be domesticaly unpopular. Think back to how the U.S. government managed to convince the populace that they were in imminent military peril from Cuba. The usual reaction to this is to invoke the missile crisis but the missile crisis was the result of U.S. agression and several invasion attempts which forced Cuba to look to the Soviet Union for protection. Viewed objectively the threat posed by tiny impoverished Cuba to thew mive wealthy U.S. is the threat posed to a tiger by a ercup and yet still the myth persists.