It was an eye opener for me to live through the drama on how Ethiopia was treated in the media and the so called diplomatic corners of the world during the relatively short lived war with TPLF in the case of our country, between 2020 and 2022. It was for a while in the case of Ethiopia, Russia is enduring such a scenario almost permanently.
Now Russia is hardened like a diamond, no country in this world can defeat Russia by a means of military power. Ukraine decided to pay the price, for whatever reason.
FM Lavrov said wordly "what doesn't kill you makes you stronger, they can never kill Russia".