Not select an alcoholic for their puppet leader who deferred to Putin or
Let Putin join NATO and let him help with capitalist imperialism
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.
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.