Belarus
Damn, I was going to declare myself the leader of Belarus but she beat me to the punch. You snooze, you lose.
I guess it’s just as well… the Belarusians likely wouldn’t accept an American of German & Scots-Irish descent as their leader.
My assumption is that Putin’s plan for the Ukraine war was for it to end with the creation of the NewSSR combining Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia into one country under his leadership.
To do that he may need to dispense with Lukashenko.