“”””My original point was that countries sometimes have evil dictators/countries as allies in times of war.””””
It matters who their enemy is.
Russia’s buddies are Hamas, Communist China, Communist North Korea, Iran, who is Russia’s enemy?
Before we went into Kosovo, Russia wasn’t all that buddy-buddy with any of them. They still have some contention with Red China about some eastern territory.
We have been pretty buddy-buddy with the ChiComs (if they stopped selling us stuff, how long would our supply chains hold up?), the Iranians (Obama’s sweet heart deal sending billions in cash and NOT shutting down nuke development), Hamas (we brokered the deal that allowed them to develop in the first place).
It doesn’t make Russia a good guy, but alliances with bad guys by itself may only be a pragmatic play. Our instigation to foment color revolutions may make some folks antsy enough to make their alliances where they can find them.
Our foreign policy over the last three decades has made more problems than it has fixed.