Even if we assume Russia is a noble, trustworthy, upright state, there isn’t much to offer any trade or meaningful relations between Russia and the US because it’s such a poor, isolated, frozen, land-locked nation effectively. This has always been their dilemma.
Now that Putin demonstrated that the Russian military is incapable of taking significant ground in a nation they had seeded with thousands of moles, a lot of people will not take them seriously from a military standpoint.
Smaller border nations will still worry, and rightfully-so, but will industrialized nations with large populations who are separated from Russia by other countries?
The Europeans talk a good game, but with no action. It’s pretty much too late for them, since they failed to invest in advanced aerospace technology 30-40 years ago and let the US cover that market firmly.
