LOL. The “American empire” built American affluence post WW2. While you or your parents were buying two cars and a house your Russian counter parts were living in communal apartments and maybe sharing outdoor plumbing arrangements. The grass isn’t greener on the other side of the hill. Sorry.
Consider that was because the US was the only industrial country that didn’t have their infrastructure blown up, and suffer from manpower shortages, as the other industrial countries did.
What happens in another country is hardly my concern as an American.