Problem is that you’re comparing two different situations. Too many misguided individuals think we’re still fighting the Soviets. That’s dead. The real enemy is Red China and the Globalist Derp State. It isn’t Russia.
We need to be taking down the globalists and hemming in Red China. We need the help of Russia to do the latter, not trying to poke them to start a nuclear war, which will only benefit Red China.
Maybe after Putin. But I doubt it. Russia will be Russia. A nationalist is likely to succeed Putin. And he would be unlikely to work with the West. Their interests rarely align with ours (except in both World Wars).