Critical support means supporting a nation fighting back against the other nation that has a global hegemony economically and in military as well against their proxies.

Yes exactly, but we don’t have to (and shouldn’t) like them. The only thing between Russia and the kind of Imperialism that the US engages in, is capacity.

China I think is our best hope, but the rise of this Russia is something to cheer only in how it undermines American hegemony.