Putin’s been prepping for war since Libya(2014). Right now Russia’s in better shape to survive a nuclear war than we are. They’ve rebuilt their fallout shelter system, modernized their nukes, and debugged their next gen delivery vehicles.
During this same period the US government failed to build a working Tritiumn production plant to refresh our aging nuclear stockpile. The plant we built literally didn’t work. There’s some question if our existing nukes are fully functional.
That is only prudent of them. If they were smaller and weaker, Moscow would look like Tripoli or Aleppo already.
Any national leader’s first duty is to see to the security of THAT nation’s people. Putin’s doing his job. Trump is trying to, despite the obstructions of the uniparty and Transnationale.