Mmmmm sure. No, I don’t think so. Russia doesn’t have the capability to hold up their side of a MAD-level exchange. Our boomers will smoke them.
Probably, you are correct. Their equipment doesn't seem to work so well.
However, even if you devastate another country on the other side of the globe, you stress the entire worldwide economy and infrastructure, and seriously ACTUALLY change the climate for the worse. If we smoked Russia and nothing came back at us (improbable) it would still result in a lot of starvation and collapse.
Yeah, I don’t really see their Nukes actually working...do they not require maintenance? we know how good they are with that. A missile or two might make it to us, but I doubt there will be any big bangs.
I saw a video of the demonstration of one of their new (at the time) naval missile systems. When launched, the missiles all collided with one another and made it a whole 30 yds past the bow