Russia is not a natural ally of Islamic or communist nations. The left in the USA and the EU drove Russia into this alliance by sanctions and false flagging.
Kudos for your clarity.
The line from the National Post article leaps out: "...the West's solidarity collapsed..."
There is no West, per se, for there is no "West" government - as singular entity which speaks for all. Even the EU -- a portion of but not all of Europe -- has adversarial issues with the US, and little, limp Canada is proving itself feckless again and again.
For the article to write of "the West" as if a single entity shows the foolishness of this all. We have our individual interests. As an example, my wife and I in South Carolina have interests very DIFFERENT from the current majority-Democrat California government. To attempt to wrap us with California as if of a single mind is "collective" -- and I mean this in the sense of collectivism.
Moreover the article speaks of "solidarity," as if all in the 'West' are supposed to agree with -- AND PAY -- for interests around the world. That too is collectivism. We did not elect to be ruled by the neocons, and it is interesting how many neo-cons may be found in the feckless and corrupt Biden administration in the moment. Solidarity, my butt....
Time for Adam Zivo and his Canadian friends to march into Ukraine and fight on the front lines. Or march into Gaza and fight Hamas. Or....
But what FECKLESS Canada and its feckless neocons want is someone else -- the United States -- to do what collective "Canada" wants.
Based on many ot the comments to the National Post article, not all agree with the National Post's "we."