Large Bullfrog

It really just comes down to two very simple things:

1. While Putin/Russia certainly aren’t socialist, they at least don’t actively try to scrub away and bury every last remnant of their socialist past, which is more than can be said for certain other eastern European countries. Likewise, they have shown real willingness to cooperate and provide valuable support to other actual socialist nations like Cuba and the DPRK.

2. Russia isn’t the dominant Imperialist power, the US and it’s European buddies are. Expecting a socialist revolution to happen anytime in the near future in the imperial core as things currently stand is naive at best, the rest of the world must lift themselves up on their own first. If Russia falls, it’s easy mode for the West to continue dominating the rest of the world, China for all it’s merits can’t take on the entirety of the West by itself.