“”””Your point is that USSR/Russia makes alliances consistently with bad actors in peace and war.””””
That isn’t my point, it is the same buddies and the same shared enemy.
My point is what I have posted “those are Russia’s buddies and nothing changes, and when they are involved in wars, Russia helps them, and vice versa, you have seen it since perhaps before you were born but at least all your life and you are seeing it now, those countries have an enduring relationship and underlying commonality with Russia.”
“Yet generation, after generation, there they are, buddies, working against their common enemy and even fighting shoulder to shoulder against it in wars.”
Ok. I do not accept your characterzation of “buddies”.