Well you're wrong to be pessimistic based on your anecdotes. Russians won't be okay with what their leaders are doing forever because it's creating bad results for them.
Nah you always put Russia and China on a pedestal like they're too powerful to be stopped in the future, and they can just keep being so aggressive forever. That's nonsense.In the end they will pull out another 91 or another "reset" and you will be cheering only to be shocked again a decade down the road "wait what how did this happen again... again?"