Thanks to the Free Press, the U.S. public has yet to have any idea how grave the threat to our survival is. Washington doesn't give a **** about national security, especially as compared to state security. The priority has always been to dominate the world indefinitely, even it means risking nuclear war. The way U.S. planners see it, hundreds of millions of people may die but U.S. missile defenses will ensure that the world's only superpower and its will survive and Russia will be eliminated as a potential rival. They don't care. MSNBC's Joy Reid expressed disappointment that the U.S. military didn't attack Russian troops it bombed a Syrian military base on April 7, 2017: