To be powerful, economy and stability go hand in hand, Russia has less of it. Russians have the largest pile of Nuclear weapons but they cannot sustain any war with a euro country let alone US because their economy is just not good.
Let me give you some pocket change so you can call someone who is as naive and gullible as you.
When the United States went into ww2 they were still recovering from The Great Depression. Furthermore, the US military was only ranked as the 17th largest military in the world prior to WW2. It was because of WW2 that the American economy and military jumped from a state of stagnation to a leading military and economic force.
The Soviet Union was the same story, after WW2 the Soviet Union became a superpower. all of this despite having half of the country reduced to ruble.
Look at it in another way, the Soviet Union produced over
100,000 tanks from 1941-1945. All of this cost money, all of this requires material, and all of this requires man power. The Soviet Union also produced aircraft, artillery, oil, small arms, mines, ect...ect...on an industrial capacity that even today would seem impossible. Mind you all of this was occurring while most of western Soviet Union was occupied. Most cities, towns and villages were either completely destroyed, captured or blockaded. Yet we apparently have an expert in the subject that knew none of this
Most European countries do not have the oil to fight with Russia, they do not have the raw materials, and they do not have the manpower.
