The recent shift from aligning with China to aligning more openly with Russia from the AES as a whole is a bit worrying. Having Russia as a military ally right now isn't the best situation

You're correct it is silly and naive to call Russia an ally, but in the grand scheme its not like there are better options. AES alignment as you call it may well be the new BRICS membership card at this point as China simultaniously says US bad while gives weapons to Saudi Arabia who are fighting Yemen who is the only one fighting for Palestine.

I'd rather blame the complete lack of leadership from these AES countries, again 99% China and 1% Vietnam's shitty western aligned attitudes than Burkina Faso's brainworms as bad as they may be.

At the end of the day the DPRK also aligned with Russia for a reason, if they can trust them "enough" what other alternative is there? Embracing the devil doesn't work so anything else goes sadly.