Right after the Niger coup, where Russia now has a land-linked block of countries across the middle of Africa.
What we are seeing is the exposure of US failure.
Remember “Russia is increasingly isolated in the world and the world will insist, no, demand that Russia behave in a civilized way and stop obstructing UN actions in Syria.”
The reality is Russia’s global bloc represents the majority of mankind. China and India and Indonesia are not anti Russia and refuse to participate in anti Russia sanctions. Those countries, with the needed additional ones, add up to the majority.
It is the US and UK who are becoming increasingly isolated in the world and we will have to change our behavior to accept the reality of the multi-polar world. For our own good, this needs to happen before the purely byte nature of our “wealth” (as defined by $32 Trillion debt) is exposed as a comparison to the actual wealth of oil, gas and uranium.