“the peaceful collapse of the USSR in late 1991”
lol. yeah.
The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist. Charles Baudelaire.
He’ll start with Belarus, work to strangle Poland’s energy flow from Lituania and then move to the southern caucuses.
He wants the unified republic back as a dominating power.
He’s teaming up with China because he has to, not because he wants to.