I agree with your concerns but I would add that government run Russian TV today broadcast the message that "we (Russia) will turn America into Radioactive Ashes".
That gets my attention.
That is not accurate, and it was only a talking head that said this:
“Russia is the only country in the world realistically capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash,” anchor Dmitry Kiselyov said on his weekly news show on state-controlled Rossiya 1 television.