Right, because moronic over-simplifications and stereotypes are so much better than applying actual thought.
Russia has exceptional metallurgists, engineers, physicists, has about half of the globe's nuclear arsenal (8500 to our 7700... the other 8 Nuclear Club members total only 1100 weapons all together), a space program, etc etc etc. Dismissing a huge nation that has (or recently had) super-power status, while they have a motivated old-school leader, and while their primary opposition is a weak little quisling like Obama, is very short-sighted. Georgia was the beginning. Nobody blinked. Crimea is now the test of the West... and we have now all seen zero indication that anyone in the world will do anything but talk if Putin decides to go around snapping up real estate. The only limit on them now is Putin's ambition.
Russia also has an age mortality of 50 something.
Russia was given the opportunity to be China and blew it. The Slav mentality is incapable of emerging into the present. Somehow even though there are flashes of brilliance, dullness prevails.
If ever, it will be 50 years at least for Russia to catch up to the current present.