The Russian Orthodox Church is blessing holy warriors with every graduating class from a military academy. Putin has christian religious visions and sees Russia as the next owner of the mantle of Christian Civilization.The writing is on the wall.
These are the people that survived Chernobyl and learned from it.
If Israel gets nuked we are next.
The Russians will more likely watch us implode, seeing how we are plummeting at an increasing speed. They don't need to risk their cities.
They are however, very concerned about the crapastan countries to the south. Particularly around Sochi.