Putin has tried his best to make Russia an adversary akin to the Cold War era. He was KGB, through and through, and many seem to forget about it. He longs for another Soviet Union. He's deluded about it. Romney was right in his assessment of them. We can't dismiss them as a threat to our security. We've caught them red handed(pardon the pun) meddling in our elections. As a military threat they are real, but they couldn't/wouldn't hold up against us. Forget Romney, why did Trump dismiss their cyber crimes, per his recorded words, "I don't see why they would do it", even after there was incontrovertible evidence of it.