This article sums it up well - Russia does not have the ability to defend an ally. Russia did nothing about Venezuela or now Iran, so there goes those partnerships. Russia has nothing but dead soldiers walking and nukes. The deaths of young Russians are sad, and why the people don’t stand up is even sadder. I’m not sure if it is fear or the propaganda, and not knowing the facts about those being slaughtered by Putin’s commands.
What is even more surprising is China’s hesitancy, supposedly our strongest enemy. They lost the Panama Canal, Venezuela, and next comes Cuba. Their so-called great radar systems failed. Trump is rolling over our two biggest enemies like a hot knife through butter. That is strange, and maybe all the hype about weapons from Russia and China is nothing but fluff, except for the nukes that no one will use because the world cannot take a nuclear war.
The only one that would use nuclear weapons is the Iranian regime, and they are being slaughtered, and all attempts at nukes are gone. All IMO.
https://www.nysun.com/article/from-cuba-to-iran-russia-retreats-to-middle-power-status
“After failing to protect three allies in 15 months — Syria, Venezuela, and now Iran — Russia looks more and more like a second-tier power. It may have the world’s largest landmass and the world’s largest nuclear arsenal, but it lacks a key attribute of a superpower: the ability to defend an ally.
Despite signing last year in the Kremlin “strategic partnerships” with the leaders of Venezuela and Iran, Russia reacted only with words when President Trump gave President Nicolás Maduro and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei the hook. Belying lavish signing ceremonies in glittering Kremlin halls, Russia now looks like a middle power.
This “pummeling is embarrassing to Moscow,” Canadian-American foreign affairs analyst Diane Francis wrote yesterday. “The Kremlin was nowhere to be seen as American forces surrounded the Ayatollah’s regime, or when the U.S. recently assaulted its other allies, Venezuela and Cuba.”