Russia is at a disadvantage in its struggle against the US Empire as the US only wants to destroy, while Russia wants to build. Most governments are afraid of antagonizing the US, but the advantage for Russia is that the US is falling apart economically, socially, and politically. The US economy is still huge, but financial and social wealth are conflated into a misleading index of pseudo-prosperity. The US is being bled to death by the imperial parasite feeding on it.
# Russia
The loss of Russia as a reliable US partner is a massive setback in the fight against global threats, including Islamic State. The high-alert status of American and Russian nuclear weapons is also a key issue that requires negotiation between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Russia represents no threat to the United States except those created by Washington and NATO. The expanding alliance between Russia and China is a separate subject and symptomatic of unwise US policy.