What would the world's militaries look like if the USSR

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Let's have a bit of fun with a what if:

In this timeline the 91 Coup happened, and was still defeated, but the Union of Sovereign States/USS isn't shelved and goes through as originally intended. The Warsaw Pact collapsed as per the original timeline. This leaves a mostly intact post-USSR that still suffers from the problems the USSR did, and the successor states, so there would likely be reduced military spending, but nothing on the scale of what happened after the dissolution of the union in real life. While the USS would almost certainly move further from communism, this wouldn't necessarily translate into less international tension, because it would lack the Warsaw Pact buffers, it would still represent a major power bloc with interests against the West's and there would still be a great deal of changes happening geopolitically and a lot of uncertainty relating to that.

So let's assume the Cold War doesn't end, but changes. What would this mean for military procurement in the past three decades? What would the US military look like now, and the USS? What about the rest of NATO and former WP? I would imagine we'd see stuff like wider F-22 production, the Commanche would have been built, we'd have Seawolfs rather than Virginias, but what else? What would happen politically in Europe? How would China's rise compare?

TL;DR - The USSR survives as the USS, minus the Warsaw Pact, what happens to the world, and what happens to its armies?