I don’t believe anyone, except my wife.
I especially don’t believe anything said or written by Russians. And I 100% don’t believe what the Russian lovers on free republic write.
Russians and Eastern Europeans in general tend to be boisterous and braggarts. They are a notch up from Persians, and then Arabs.
If only as much resources and effort were put into opposing China - then again there is no money to be made in Russia.