Russia is weaker, not stronger.
How can you compare their vast USSR military and geography and troop masses on our borders and the assault structure of their forces with an incredible number of Airborne Divisions and Helicopter Assault Brigades and bridge building brigades, with what is left to them now as their Warsaw pact has self destructed and most of those nations switching sides to America and it’s 28 nation NATO alliance?
Reagan faced 4 Russian leaders, and he led leader number 4 into his fatal mistakes that cost them the empire that this power and wealth obsessed KGB man would like to reassemble.
The Russians are building at a fast rate now. There gear is getting better and they are not focused on build big numbers any more.
The Soviet Union was militarily stronger, but then so were we. Economically the USSR was a communist basket case that ultimately couldn’t compete with us. Putin’s crony capitalist Russia is economically much stronger than the USSR, while we are now up to our eyeballs in debt, much of it to China. And back then China was strategically aligned with us against the USSR. Now they are Putin’s allies.