Russia is already full on attacking Ukraine and what we see there is likely the best they can muster short of the nuclear option.
I too had fallen for the Russian propaganda ops and saw them as a credible threat because seemingly they, while still authoritarian and dictatorial, had made efforts to deal with corruption and un-F themselves the past 10-15 years.
Well this war showed it was just outwards posturing and psy-ops, Russia is a glorified banana-republic and won't even if they manage to conclude this war in some way somewhat favorable for them, be able to bother anyone for the foreseable future...