Russia is a 3rd world country with nukes, oil and gas.

With titanium, uranium, complex steel alloys, space industry, nuclear icebreakers, and everything between. Tell me please, if US can't produce its own titanium, due to absence of affordable technology of producing it from garbage that left from producing steel, and buy that high-end material from Russia, who is really 3rd world country? Country that can not afford own titanium production or country that sells it? Same with many high-tech products, from fuel rods for nuclear power stations and special glass for UV/IR optics to rocket engines.

So who is 3rd world country - one that produce high-tech products or one that buy them?

High-tech is not just designing overengineered microprocessors to run overbloated software. There are a lot of things that need high-tech and can't be produced by 3rd world country. And by any accounting it is more like US/Europe today become 3rd world countries, not Russia/China and even Iran.

They could have joined the civilized world

You mean that "civilized world" ruled by insane globalists with woke ESG crap, population extermination, stupid law religion and all that stuff? No, thanks, we don't want to be a part of your crappy "civilized world".

And Russian globalist authorities thried a lot, from USSR fall. Russia tried to join NATO - what did your "civilized world" tell? "No, first you have to buy crappy US weapons of NATO standard", "Wait, but we could produce weapons according to NATO standards by ourselves, no problem for us to switch from 152mm to 155mm f.e." - said Russia. "No, you have to buy US weapons to become part of NATO" - they told. That's what all that NATO about - buying crappy overpriced weapons from US. Made from Russian materials, by the way. Russia joined every single "civilized world" terrorist organizations, from IMF to WTO. But still was not allowed to sell Russian planes, spaceships, agricultural machinery and other stuff. "They are not ecological!, planes are slightly noisy, spaceships are not designed for trans people and machinery have no vendor lock". And even now, Russian government still stay in all that shitty "civilized" organizations for unknown reason, when it is absolutely obvious that they are just a tools for globalists. On the citizen level all that was the same - from humiliating procedure of getting US visa to unacceptance of Russians in all "civilized" spheres as equal. "Yes, you are genius author, but, uh, you know, um, you are Russian, you don't like gays and do not run to shoot Putin, so no, we can't accept you in our civilized circle".

That shit with "joining civilized world" cost millions of lives, huge loss of industry and creation of oligarchs class in Russia. And it gave absolutely nothing. Russians did nearly everything "civilized world" told us, except few things unacceptable for us for religious or traditional reasons. But we got nothing. Even our oligarchs and globalist shills was not accepted as equals in same circles of "civilized world". Russians will never accept being second class members of anything. Either completely equal, either GTFO.

So fuck your "civilized world", fuck your "civilization", fuck your "civilizers". We don't need your "civilization", we have our own, and we absolutely don't give a fuck about your "civilization" views on us.

West lost its credibility completely. Today Western "civilized world" is accounted as dirty swamp with serpent liars and dishonest thieves and bastards who can't hold their word for a second, who also for completely unjustified reason think that they are "more civilized". West is done. Western "civilization" is not attractive anymore for anybody, including unlucky Western people who have to suffer in that "civilization" that destroyed everything they valued earlier.

When we all gather on the funeral of your "civilization" eventually, we will gladly piss on its grave. Together, Russians and Westerners.