I believe it was the goal all throughout the 90s and it’s basically a miracle that Russia made it through that intact, the imperialists were too busy looting and destroying the USSR as a whole to focus on the destitute Russian federation
I'm gonna need to dig through a lot of stuff for this so I don't have a citation on hand but I do remember reading that on the outbreak of the Russian Civil War and the intervention of the 14 entente powers, the imperialists wanted to carve up the former Russia empire into spheres of influence aka balkanize it to turn it into resource extraction states.
I believe it was the goal all throughout the 90s and it’s basically a miracle that Russia made it through that intact, the imperialists were too busy looting and destroying the USSR as a whole to focus on the destitute Russian federation
I'm gonna need to dig through a lot of stuff for this so I don't have a citation on hand but I do remember reading that on the outbreak of the Russian Civil War and the intervention of the 14 entente powers, the imperialists wanted to carve up the former Russia empire into spheres of influence aka balkanize it to turn it into resource extraction states.