Must be a prima-donna complex: whatever's happening, has to be about them. WhoTF would need them, to attack or for any other purpose? The attacks and threats they have to face are of purely internal nature, like organized crime, restive ethnics etc.
We needed them after 9/11 - the Northern Alliance was Russia's allies not ours.
Russia has the Byzantine complex. The Russian Empire has many cultural and religious ties to the Byzantine Empire and they have the same messed up scheming version of politics. The Russians also have a cultural death wish. If they had a choice between holding out a hand of friendship and mutual profit or burning a bridge, they'll choose burning the bridge every time.