I don't know much about Russia, but I suspect you will have to incorporate some of our weaknesses in the not too distant future.

Our current leadership is a bunch of faceless bureaucrats with one particularly senile example pushed to the fore. Our political system is quickly coming up on an election that will break open some serious fractures in its ability to function on a world stage, as the likely result of the Republicans winning the house and senate will be immediate impeachment proceedings against the current resident, with various other investigations flipping from focusing on Republican skullduggery, to Democratic skullduggery. Much of the rest of the world, outside our various areas of influence gained in the aftermath of WW2, are not exactly jumping on board, as they sense it as some continuation of Western colonialism, given the resources contained in Russia and the joke before the war was the West wanting a war with Russia to the last Ukrainian.

Our military has had a rather abysmal record of the last 60 years, of winning every battle and losing every war, while those promoting them are far more interested in lining their own pockets and keeping the MIC happy, than any real global strategy, other than grabbing resources, usually oil.

Not to mention our entire economic system is tied together by an increasingly metastatic financial system, entirely addicted to cheap debt, reduced to the choice between imploding the markets, or imploding the dollar.

The problem is when the chosen narrative becomes too disjointed and dysfunctional, it tends to peel away, like an old scab.

I suspect the powers that be currently promoting this war as some grand cosmic conflict between righteousness and evil, will be trying to forget it when the effects don't go according to plan, just as they are trying to memory hole the covid pandemic, even though the numbers haven't changed that much.

The mother of all reality checks is in the mail.