a lot. - marketing, it boosted the "russia military stronk!!" narrative. - power projection maintaining a widely disliked leader in power showed all shithole dictators in asia and africa they could rely on monke to stay in power if their army wasnt enough. - they get to block the syrian gas pipeline which means less competition for their gas in central europe. - a port in the mediterranean to support their horn of africa operations. - a shitton of rapefugees to flood and desestabilize europe. - money for their contributions to the war. - mercenaries for their meatwaves in ukraine. - natural resources, sure russia has a lot of gas and oil but why make money selling your gas and oil when you can make money selling other people gas and oil?
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