because in a global world you can't really survive without outside protection. russia is more open to dictators and are more transactional rather than how usa wants people to be integrated in their free market system and other imf like oversight with many strings attached. some of it is relics from the cold war era when soviet was a very direct rival and would pour in support for any communist state or anti-western ones so even if they don't kick around that project in the same way many of the countries who once received benefit view russia in a more hopeful manner (like with the sahel coup-belt).
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