The history-makers and the losers in international support

Once again, Russia found itself on the wrong side of a vote in the United Nations General Assembly.  After being the only country in the Security Council to vote against the resolution that the Crimean referendum was illegal (China's antipathy towards cross-border meddling induced it to abstain), the same such resolution was put to the General Assembly where it was overwhelmingly endorsed.  It was the same when it came to censuring Syria, losing but vetoing in the Security Council and then being trounced in the non-binding General Assembly vote (though international law seems to matter little to Russia currently, binding or not).
Now the United Nations is far from a body of like-minded democratic countries but concerning a resolution that is opposed by Moscow yet receives so much global support (or, as Tony Benn would have it, the support of the self-designated elites of the international community), it kind of puts the Kremlin on the wrong side of history, just as George W Bush was, especially in the invasion of Iraq.  When Nicolas Sarkozy arrived as a peace envoy in 2008 to mediate in the Russo-Georgian War, Putin told Sarkozy that he wanted to push on to Tbilisi and string up Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili by the balls.  The then-French president cautioned that this would make him like Bush to Saddam Hussein, to which Putin admitted "You have a point."  The war soon concluded thereafter.