Dudes Russia just isnt the threat the USSR was and it will be very hard pressed to reach such a level again. That's just reality. I didn't downplay the seriousness of Russia but there is no comparison. Anyone have an idea how Russia is going to take over Eastern Europe again, much less the former Soviet states?
Early 20s USSR did not seem like much a threat either. I was born and grew up there, before getting the ef out, so I claim some direct experience - and let me just say that I cannot take this opinion of yours seriously. The problem is not with the level of the threat [these levels vary with time] but with the threat nature - i.e. with civilizational nature of what Huntington calls "Orthodox civ". Even a small amount of plague bacilli could start an epidemics - the threat is not so much in the scale of outbreak [albeit a small one is easier to treat and contain] as in the virulence of yersinia pestis.
"Dudes Russia just isnt the threat the USSR was and it will be very hard pressed to reach such a level again. That's just reality."
You seem to forget that Russia shut off the gas to Europe this winter and froze thousands.