I see russia as kind of a "child with a suicide vest" at this point.

It was powerful some years ago, and has the remnants of that power, in it's nuclear arsenal, but thanks to socialism, heavy dictatorships/putin, and other factors, it's done little but rely on oil exports, and doesn't have any sort of substantial economy or influence in the world.

I see the attempted attacks on Ukraine and other places as little more than an out of place power grab by a nation that isn't willing to accept that it is a third rate player on the world stage.

I don't see Russia as evil, wrong, or anything like that, and I'm quite a fan of the old soviet union ideals of focus on science and atheism (although not a fan of their actual attempts at "science" and "atheism").

I see Russia as silly, backwards, and filled with propaganda encouraging hatred and strife against the "evil capitalist US". Not to say that the US doesn't do the exact same thing, sometimes, but thanks to culture here those attitudes about "Evil soviets!" have pretty much disappeared. I see Russia as a nation still stuck in the cold war, unable to adapt and shift to the changing economic, cultural, and social trends.