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This could’ve all been avoided if they
But because Russia survived all their attacks and coups and challenged them as a superpower through 3 fucking eras of government and ideology, their ego is shattered
There could have been a version of 1991 where the western powers immediately rushed in to write the Russian Confederation's constitution in tandem. I think they did something like this but clearly they weren't thinking straight.
They could have made it a more overt puppet state and ended up with an ally like Japan or South Korea, maybe that's what they were hoping for and that it would happen naturally, I don't know. They could have further encircled China and had a huge neoliberal ally full of oil and cheap unprocessed copper.
But no, out of spite or lack of strategy or something, they had to go and make Russia into a geopolitical rival. I'm very confused about why the imperialists did that or what they were thinking. It led exactly to this moment.