Man, I can agree with China, but Russia is not a first rate power by any means. If only you don't measure "power" by amount of nukes, but in this case Russia has nothing to do with it, it is all thanks to the USSR. Russian economy is non-existant, people are poor as fuck without any positive perspectives in their lifes. Everything you hear about "traditional values" is a total bullshit, Russia has one of the top places in the world with HIV spread, it is such a masive problem that you can surely say that Russia has fucking HIV pandemics. No trannies, no gays, no pedos lol but HIV rating is a fucking Afrika. If you look at stats, Russian demographics is terrifying, it simple dies out ( add here over 1 mln deathes from COVID for 145 mln country), they import migrants in collosal quantities to somehow replace the workforce. Russia has no modern technologies (maybe aside of some military shit but idk here), it doesn't manufacture any high-tech goods, simply trading off timber, oil and gas for anyone, especially China that receives it almost for free. In case of any large-scale war, Russia just has no population to fight for it, unless you mean 70+ grannies and a bunch of trolls on-line.
The only Russian power that really exists is that it is extremly bold and and can larp as an empire pretty well. There is a word in Russian "gopnik" which means a thug who attacks weaker for money and out of being too coward to attack anyone stronger. Typically you are not afraid of gopnik, you simply don't want to engage. Pootin doesn't care about its population because he doesn't need to care about being elected. He can just exploit tax money for his empire cosplay and various adventures such as one we sperg on here. Because of that he has enough resources to look like a cool boomer chad in comparison to Macron, Merkel and other western "leaders". For them the lives of their citizens mean something, for Pootin it doesn't mean shit. A couple of thousands ivans dying just becase he wanted to cosplay Atilla is acceptable damage.