>>512144863IT is possible, that's why you have war in Ukraine (since 2014). The goal of this war is to humliate Russia and destroy Russian sphere of influence (especially in Central Asia). Why, you ask?
Breaking away of CA republics from Russia means they will ally with China sooner or later due to proximity. This means Russia will need help with containing growing sphere of Chinese influence. And thus it becomes viable ally. As long as Russia is strong and capable of maintaining its sphere of influence it will not ally with USA. The reason being, they prefer multipolar world order with Russia as one of its axes.
It is even funnier if you take my country (or other butthurtbellters) and try look from our perspective at this situation. We want to help USofA defeat Russia but we want to break it so hard it will be useless to USA as ally. Alternatively, we do not want to touch Russia, let it remain local imperium, so USA will have to invest in our region to maintain balance of powers. it is really ridiculous.
So you arrive at this seemingly contradictive situtation, where to ally with Russia, USA must first kick Russian ass.
>>512146082 taging you as well