What is the greater threat to America?

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Islamic terrorism is a grave threat to Muslim-majority countries because the terrorists have the ability and means to overthrow legitimate government for one that espouses militant Islam as a stated goal. Jihadists, however, have no ability to overthrow the government of any western country, and, to be honest, little ability to carry out mass attacks against the west except by recruiting drifters and felons for suicide attacks.

Compare that to Russia: Russia has already engaged in territorial expansion against two Soviet ex-republics and openly threaten the Baltic states. (And they have little concern with civilian casualties when they do engage in direct military action). They have 8000+ nuclear warheads pointed against the US. They deploy countless spies and double agents and hackers to compromise our ability to defend ourselves. And to top it all, Russia spreads disinformation through paid trolls to legitimize Russian aggression ("Killiary is going to start WWIII") and encourage diabolical nonsense like isolationism in the US and breaking up the EU.

Nobody calls what Russia does to the US and our allies "terrorism", but it is far more terrorist in practice than anything our unemployed "jihadis" have done in Boston or Paris or Brussels.

So, yes, Islamic terrorism causes loss of life in dramatic fashion but is not ultimately a threat to the west. The danger of Russian terrorism, however, is real and grave.

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1. China
2. Islamic terrorism

Why is China a threat?

It is a present and long term threat to US world dominance. Therefore, enemy No.1

Trump got it right.

And in our struggle against China, Putin is ally No.1

Trump got that right, too.


Threat No.2 is Islamic terrorism.

Russia is not a threat. Russia is our ally. Or it should be one (and probably will be one soon).

Nonsense. China is Russia's strongest ally, and vice versa.