Thank you for your good-faith comment, and for your insight.

I don't share your analysis of Russia's reaction to NATO as a consequence of neoliberal shock therapy, because modern Russia isn't a regime born from opposition to the shock therapy, but from the elements that became rich as a consequence. The modern Russian elites that direct Russia's policy are those who profited directly from the neoliberal shock therapy. If they now oppose NATO, I'd argue it's because, somehow, during the hurried process of privatization of the economy, the west allowed local, non-NATO elites to rise in the country from the preexisting black markets and capitalist subversive elements in the late USSR. Russian capital mostly being in Russia and in Russian oligarch hands, basically implies that their interests are in competition with those of NATO.

Your last point about the contrast between socialists in western countries vs socialists in the global south perceiving the Russia-Ukraine war differently makes me think, so I thank you for that, and if you can point me towards any article on the topic, I'd be glad to read it. Thanks again for your comment