I read first person shooters are good for your brain, and have overcome my initial scruples and started playing Call of Duty. The two I have are Modern Warfare 1 and Modern Warfare 2.
Released in 2007 and 2009 respectively, the enemies in the first one are Russians and Syrians (the guy we are looking for is named Al-Assad, and at a certain point he detonates a nuke he allegedly got from the Russians), and in the second one the Russians invade Virginia.
It is odd to me that these two countries specifically would have been chosen back then. The Iranians, the North Koreans, and even the various Al-Queda groups in Iraq and Afghanistan would have made more sense. We were fighting them then, and the possibilities were and remain considerable.
When the story of the modern era is told honestly–if it ever is–we may all wonder how we were collectively so stupid.