ussie has nothing to offer accept a record of failures
As explained to me.... russians are socialized to think of themselves as superior to everyone else on a metaphysical level.
They're responsible for defeating the nazis in WWII (no mention of lend lease) which was the greatest human accomplishment ever.
In addition they are told that they are the inheritors of the greatest literatary tradition, best form of government (absolute dictatorship whatever it's called at the time) and that the destiny of russia is to rule the world because of the general superior nature of russians.
They call this 'truth' and when they say they're fanatics in search of 'truth' that's what they mean.
If they're neighborhoods are filthy and they don't have any money and their rulers steal everything they have.... it's a small price to pay for belonging to their superior culture which is meant to save the world.
When other countries fail to recognize russian superiority then that means that the other countries are degraded and need divine punishment (which is why telegram is full of russians celebrating the murder of Ukrainian children or the Turkish earthquake etc).
It's batsh+t crazy, but once you understand that they believe it.... all the insane things they do and say make sense.