Putin's trip to the DPRK featured the signing of a new mutual defense pact, echoing the language of Article V of NATO but the exact details kept purposefully vague
North Korea even as a reclusive minor power is now supplying Russia with perhaps more artillery shells than all the US and EU has provided Ukraine, on top of Russia's full blown war machine
China has sided with Russia by way of assent if not alliance, having given the former to Kim to provide weapons to kill Europeans even if China won't do so directly
And now while Putin makes his way to an unaligned Vietnam, the real outside player to refuse to side with the west was India
An alignment of world powers against the west is no longer a theoretical, its a occurring in real time. Like most major shifts, it goes slow at first, then fast, and we're right in the middle.
Countries like Russia, China, North Korea, India, South Africa, Mexico, etc have had many reasons to divide and infight, but rather than the west exploiting these fracture points and keeping the world divided to our benefit, we're uniting them- economically, diplomatically, and worst of all, militarily. North Korea with its nuclear weapons will now have access to advanced Russian missile technology and pose a true ICBM threat, not a 'flip a coin if any could reach hawaiii'. Iran won't be far behind, and the western allies aren't having much better luck in their proxy war with Iran in the red sea than against Russia in Ukraine.
There's a new axis around which the countries of the world are rotating and its no longer Rome to Berlin