What an irony. I thought we are the morally superior saviors of the planet

I guess you don't. 

The use of 'allies' seems so suss these days. Post WWII you can see a natural use for the term. But more than ever, seems it's an enemy of my enemy is my ally. 

At this point, I think the EU is finding that it has less allies than Russia has.

"we don't trade with bad countries" is such a BS line, that's the whole point of diplomacy, you don't need diplomacy to deal with your allies