Gold state, I don’t know how old you are, but our memories our old nemesis differ greatly. I remember 100 divisions of combined arms aimed at the heart of Europe, and 13 warheads per mid sized city in the US. Russia is nothing close to the old cccp, and that is a good thing.
They are a paper tiger puffed up on artificially high oil prices. Had it not been for Obama/pelvis I and $10t in new debt binding our hands, this would be a joke.
In my youth, the USSR was on its deathbed with a succession of geriatric leaders. A younger Gorbachev could not stem its decline. And then it disappeared through a process that has no known historical precedent. Russia is a great power but is nowhere as powerful and feared as the Soviet Union was back in the day.