Might not be necessary, the Jews would F them up and they owe then some for Stalin.
If Russia could pull that off it would mean their Navy would be much stronger and they would possibly have made a land invasion from one of three ways across thousands of miles in multiple countries across perhaps the toughest terrain the world. We would have much bigger problems than Israel at the point.
You comparison is stupid. But, to your point Israel is a better trading partner and if Russia had done what I said above that means they would control the entire middle east and south east Asia oil, including the Persian Gulf.
So, yehh it would mean more as they would be coming in from also the Mediterranean. Israel would be useless to them other than having access from the Mediterranean to the Red Sea and Persian Gulf including the Saudi oilfield along with Kuwait.
Yehhh moron.