Good luck with Russia ensuring your civil rights over those nasty westerners

yes a resurgent russia and china will ensure our civil rights over those nasty westerners because competition with them forces you to play nice.
remove all opposition to the west and we all end up as your slaves and playthings
The west wants your loyalty and the Chinese want your resources. Russia wants your obedience.
actually you don't matter at all, you're Canadian.
But as Gurey said, we welcome any rivalry between US and Russia, China, because it is that rivalry that gives developing nations a chance to develop, When Barre discarded the soviet completely, he guaranteed his own destruction by allying himself with the US, the best thing for him to do was to live under the radar, but granted that is a difficult thing to do when your neighbor is Ethiopia.