cjm

Iran is not nearing total economic collapse, its economy is not good, but it seems far from collapse you are talking about.
Russia is not dying, too. Well, perhaps its birth rate is terribly low but it is not equal to overall dying.
Stars are red, not white – just look at china.
As for position to help or not to help – no one is going to help russia, on the other hand no one is going to make war on russia, particularly not European Union.
I have feeling that you read too much of …… propaganda. Reading propaganda is not bad, on the other hand there is a thing like too much of a good stuff.