Russia is weakening and it’s become obvious now that they were not nearly as strong as they pretended to be, all along. That fat pig of a North Korean dictator, Kim Jong Un, is currently in Russia consorting with Vlad Putin over a deal for N. Korean ammunition and soldiers. Since North Korea is the last country you want to make any deals with, as they have the worst, most repressive reputation of any nation on Earth, this is embarrassing for Russia.
Add to that the fact that Armenia is now turning away from relying on Russia to protect their border with Azerbaijan and is now actively withdrawing their representatives in various Russian military and civilian offices and moving over to support of the West. “Instead, it has invited U.S. soldiers to stage joint drills in the country as part of exercises codenamed Eagle Partner 2023.” Russia is very unhappy with this.
Russia, supposedly a great Superpower able to conquer the world, has proven to be unable to conquer a tiny country like Ukraine. Their entire military effort including all their national war production is now thrown into this one effort, of conquering little Ukraine. Russia is weak and growing weaker.
All those little Eastern Europe nations, most of whom were once vassals of the Soviet Union, may well move over to the Western Europe/USA side. This is the forming up of the two sides in the coming conflict over who dominates the future Global government.