The Rubble

 Russia and China historically abhor Islamists and the religion itself  per se, but see them as "useful idiots" in their joint  struggle against what they perceive as decadent and decaying Western democracies.  

However countries which have experienced the lethal effects of militant Islam don't agree that there is any usefulness in Islamists and see them not as  idiots,  but as dangerous intelligent  threats to themselves. One can count in this India, Turkey, Egypt, Indonesia, Tunisia, Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia,  Malaysia   and half a dozen Sahel  African states who are  Muslim majority.  Throw in  the large landmass of the Central Asian "stans" from Uzbeks to  Azarbaijanis and  you have  a huge chunk of the world's Muslim states.

As far as the Arab states of the Middle East  are concerned, revolutionary Iran is a  pure poison, for almost half a century.  The Shiite Islamic revolution makes no bones about it's intention to destroy and replace all of their governments, from Jordan to Kuwait and everything in between, with Islamist regimes pattered on Shiite hegemony, led by themselves. If some had doubts, Iran lashed out at the Ibadi Muslims of Oman, a non-confrontational  branch of the religion.  Known for avoiding extremism and promoting peaceful coexistence,  Oman was the hopeful broker  of the February 2026 Iran-US peace talks. It got droned.

The Russians and Chinese indeed have carefully cultivated BRICS over the past decade to prepare an monetary assault on the galleon of the dollar, whose sinking would drown in it's wake   the Euro, Pound and Yen as well. This would be a nail in the coffin of the Western hegemony they intend to replace with their own. 

It would be  anchored by four nuclear armed states (Russia, China, North Korea and Iran) and the hoped for add-on of Pakistan. Iran's zero-sum attack an all and sundry including  recent sign-on members like the UAE,  has exposed the fatal flaw in BRICS - many  members of the "alliance" hate each other more than they hate the West.  BRICS has turned, in the current conflict, to rubble.

Surprisingly to some but not to this author, the strongest allies of  the Islamists and increasingly as we  see on the streets of Europe , are the Western radical left.