What do you mean is that the strategy of doing whatever the US want in and around Russia didn't work after the collapse of USSR. Russia is not a toothless tiger

What do you mean is that the strategy of doing whatever the US want in and around Russia didn't work after the collapse of USSR. Russia is not a toothless tiger (bear?), after all. Now we (the rest of the world) are only watching how big will be the size of the bite. It will be funny to watch how Trump if be able to frame the loss as a win or if he will just plain give in