Do believe that the Russian strategists know that eventually and inevitably, they will have to defend Siberia and their Pacific coast from China. Yet the distances and persistent gaps in Russian design and manufacturing is a huge problem for them. Not their courage, the Russian people have demonstrated amazing qualities under the most dire of conditions. Yet if they were smart, under Biden there will be many unemployed American designers and engineers with arms experience. It may sound traiterous to some but America’s long term interests would be well served if the Russians hired that talent to modernize their arms industry for their coming fight with China.
I have long said that we and Russia are natural allies. Far enough away from each other not to have territorial disputes, both continent-sized, technologically-advanced Western nations, both largely Christian nations (and I say this as a Jew - reality is reality, and I don’t think that to be a bad thing at all) and, not least, 2 common enemies: Radical Islam and China (the latter being a far more capable foe, of course). But for Communism, we would long ago have been allies.
If we can survive Biden/Harris and OUR Communists, perhaps one day we will be allies. Ironically enough, my grandfather ran from Russia to the US in the early 1920s to escape Communism, and I may have to do the opposite if the American Communists don’t murder me - as the Russian Communists murdered my grandfather’s father.