https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/they-ve-grown-back-how-russia-surprised-the-west-and-rebuilt-its-force/ar-BB1mLUqc?ocid=winp1taskbar&cvid=d9660d976f854fdd93156baba0f372bf&ei=46

 Quite interesting article but highly inaccurate , most of impressions agree that Russia is in full re orientation of exo politics , their prestige is highly damaged in the post soviet spectrum , that makes china more assertive in getting better prices to feed their industrial machine while them focusing on how they will break the Free World Waterwall in the pacific ocean , Also the limited capabilities Russia still has means they have to count more on their Strategic Forces as a deterrent compare to the beasties residing west and south of their borders than on the conventional ones which admittedly are getting better but not good if we take losses vs gains into account.

Moscow has killed an entire generation , that in part explains why Mr. Lavrov said it will take one generation of Russia directly engaging with the West at least with the projection of power they managed to re constitute from 2000 to 2021 salvaging whatever influence the Soviet Union had as Russia (which is the main Spiritual Heir) , with Ukraine and Belarus following.
The approach does not differ much on how the Byzantines saw the Latin Empire after 1204 , nevertheless they gone that obsessed in taking over the City of Constantine they never cared on covering their backs from the Seljuk Turks and the endless waves of same tribes invading Minor Asia.
In that manner it is a War between the Despotate of Epirus vs the Empire of Nicaea for the sake of Salonica which in Turn typically gave the Empire of Nice the erlum and loots of Istanbul in 1261 only to lose whatever rights in minor Asia less than a hundred years thanks to the Turks and internal passions as usual.

Both have to accept this : The Soviet Empire has fallen , "Epirus" or Free European Ukraine has clearly chose sides and that is the European Union and NATO , the first will they get most assuredly the latter as a linked state providing a paradigm shift for countries like Georgia and even Kazakhstan to follow should they consider proper compare to this Russian Demon haunting their national dreams.

Moscow seems to strongly count on Chechen Barbarity , Grozny is more a co capital of the Russian Federation than Leningrad.

A dark irony on how the Chechen Mafia managed in 20 years not only to take over a province ravaged twice by the Russian Army but also has a say in crucial matters and of course , god forbid , if Mr. Putin goes who is calling the Shots?

Mr. Biden's Sanctions are used as controllers compare to this failing state of events , someone could compare it on how the Brits hunted Bismark but this time without contaminating the geopolitical environment , nothing worse than a Tatar warlord sleeping with a recently capture nuclear warhead instead of his prime wife.

This Russian Titanic will have to sink in time and no more measures in all safety required(?).

The Biden Administration's hostile measures against the Russian Federation as leading the West and Free Asia have been in General most prudent and a predecessor reference for similar cases , whoever this concerns.

Moscow still has a small window to return back to normality compare to the west but this will take years if not a decade , should Mr. Lavrov's comments be taken into account word by word what the world maybe expecting is a second implosion of the elite running Russian Affairs after 1979(?) and that is the eventual break up of the entire Russian Federation possibly not in our lifetime for whoever is born before 1980.

But this Event can be highly expected even before 2060 should Moscow keeps this course.

That further concerns the still Russian Occupied Lands east of the Kolyma River which may provide chinese Access to the Pacific and the Arctic directly meddling with Western Interests while typically Russia will own the ports utilized by the Chinese Navy.