Opinion | How Russia is beating the U.S in the invisible electronic warfare fight

To put it in short, the Russians have paid attention to our demonstrated capabilities and have developed means to render those capabilities inert. Precision munitions are GPS dependent, as is precision navigation. Hence GPS spoofing systems (hello, USS McCain). C2 systems are heavily dependent on secure internet interoperability. Hence EW systems designed to degrade them tactically, and cyber warfare to disrupt them strategically. Pentagon planners and acquisition personnel love gee-whiz gadgetry that dominates the opposition, expensively. So the Russians put out information that they have all these wonder weapons (hypersonic missiles, S-400, Armata tanks, the Su-57, nuclear-powered cruise missiles that can stay aloft forever...) in order to get the Pentagon to bankrupt itself building counters to weapons that will never be mass-produced. Of course, our platforms will be limited in number, have challenges networking, and fire weapons that miss their target because of the aforementioned other initiatives.
All the while, they undermine institutions like NATO and fund splinter groups in targeted nations' politics in order to incite chaos and subvert resolve. All of these things have the virtue of being inexpensive.

We obviously have a priority problem while Russia spends around 70 Billion and we spend over 630 Billion on defense for them to have any advantage over us.

I doubt NBC news has "all" the facts regarding this issue, but frankly... it sounds possible and legitimate. What's not featured here, are any hitherto unknown systems or platforms the U.S. may (or may not) have that we intentionally keep "under wraps". My guess? If we wanted to shut down all electromagnetic fields from St. Petersburg to Warsaw... we could; just maybe not without alerting to world to what we've been up to, or without breaking a few dozen treaties.