Ding Ding Ding WARNING! WARNING!
This is indeed chilling. I have read some messages by russian and chinese cheerleaders. They say trust russia and don't worry about russia, they will sell us oil and this is the most important relationship, they are our friends and they will help us, yadda, yadda and so on. I don't trust the former Soviet Union and i most certainly don't trust the Communist People's Republic of China.
Thus Russia is still a force to be respected.
However i still say it would not be in Russias best interest to attack the US. First of all it would not win (neither would we for that matter). The reason is that although both we and the Russians have destroyed a significant portion of our nuke forces we still have the ability to destroy each other under MAD! And personally i think the reason we have been destroying our nuke forces is to get rid of the obsolete missiles and just remain with the newest minutemen and Tridents. Same thing applies to Russia ....when the destroy their MIRV SS-18s and started putting in the single warhead Topol-Ms people started applauding ....but even if the Topol-M is a sinlge warhead missile it possessed such advanced tech that it is reputed to be immune to US anti-ballistic missile defenses (it can do moves such as the so-called side maneuver [bokovoy manevr] - the ability to dodge anti-missile defenses. Topol-M will disorient enemy anti-missile defenses. It will maneuver to create a false trail. It is also described as an evasive capability with a "lateral anti-missile maneuver.). And by the way the topol-M can be easily refitted with MIRV (although the warheads would obviously be smaller).
Thus the cutting down of arms is nothing to be cheerful about , at least not to the point of boundless exuberance.
However i still assert that Russia has no reason to get itself into a fight that would have no winner. If we were talking about some Jehadi Islamic nation that advocates mass suicide that would make sense ...but the Russians care about their kids and will not risk their destruction just to get the US. Aftera ll in a nuke fight between the US and Russia both nations would be seriously 'altered'....someone say green-glows for the next 50 K years.
Thus the Russians are to be respected, but luckily (unlike the Islamists) they care about life and would not do something stupid.
And chances are in the future the only country that will be closer to the US than Russia will be Great Britain. I see an era where the three (the US, GB, and Russia) bunch together for mutual gains.
Thus the whol 'Red Dawn' concept needs to be removed from Russia and stuck where it is most applicable .....towards China!