Russia and China are trying to navigate the situation they've been placed in without resorting to no holds barred war.
The entire global south knows the crisis that America and Europe are in and they understand that they need to separate from it as much as possible.
It's going to be tough for Western Europe to extract itself out from under the empire's thumb. But a big part of the former USSR's satellite states are going to look to Russia for stability this century.
Of course, all of the juggling depends on whether the nukes get brought out.
