We are at war with beasts (governments) which could include a caliphate or theocracy I guess. The beast(s) Satan will employ against the Almighty's people (Israel) in the end. Personally, I'm still unsure of its identity.
Then there is the heretic angle to explain Russian interests... that America is one big heretic due for chastisement. The alibigensian heresy took hundreds of years to bloom, hundreds to destroy. The Quakers were started by Camisards - a remnant of the Cathars in southern france who moved to England.
The protestant devolution of Christianity will be regarded as a big dead end after Russia nukes the EU and the US and sends in their orthodox priests to convert American muslim infidels and backsliders.
Russians say that they have taken on the mantle of true Christianity since we have resigned our country to a non christian, post christian, pro homosexual, pro moslem status.