[quote=Mortalbean]
Please check page 10-12 of document. The Germans were not scared of the current Russia. They were certain that she was unprepared, it was her future state that they were "pessimistic" about. German officials thought that if Germany and Russia were to fight a war then it would be better to fight it now than later and they should take advantage of the present situation. In addition on page 4 there is an estimation of the percentage of world power of each of the countries. Note how Russia is always within one percentage point of Germany.
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Your report at the same time points out in several points there and later than Russia was considerably crippled. Even with gaining economic strength a large sum of its army was devoted to internal control over projecting its influence (which rounds back to the past major military failures and their own image of being inadequate). As well, Russia is noted by the Germans and any other observer there's a haunting "specter of Revolution" which likely could have launched with or without the war, after all this is significant class-divide within Russia which would no doubt spur larger class-conflict as is the proponent of Socialist revolution the likes of Trotsky and Lenin.

Furthermore through the 19th centuries and early 20th centuries the Russian nation was time in and out rocked by coup, uprisings, and [failed] revolution making the country even more unsafe for itself. It probably would have caught fire in another wave of revolution.

Russia may have had greatly expanding wealth but it didn't go to the working class. Sooner or later that'd call for large-scale disenfranchisement.