I suppose Putin is just going to have to invade and annex those ungrateful countries that don’t want to help him invade and annex other ungrateful countries.
His cousin Adolph did that too. It didn’t end well for him.
[I suppose Putin is just going to have to invade and annex those ungrateful countries that don’t want to help him invade and annex other ungrateful countries.]
That’s principally the reason they’re not happy about the invasion of Ukraine - the expectation that Ukraine is just the first stop on a long journey. Wars use up materials and foot soldiers. That’s why conquerors grow stronger as they add territory - the addition of material resources and foot soldiers aids them in future expeditions. They don’t want Russia getting any stronger.
Self-interest, rather than ideology, feeds their opposition. For pretty much the same reason, the US allied with a genocidal Russia against a genocidal Germany during WWII. Prewar China had been a corrupt and massacre-happy mess.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_massacre
The US allied with it to prevent Japan from consolidating its hold on the manpower of a continental-sized country, and deploying it elsewhere during Japan’s wide-ranging wars of conquest.