we don't.
Russia isn't nearly close to its breaking point, and messing about with their internals can backfire hard. I can respect wanting to remove Russia from the board as a great power, but america's record on both nation building and regieme change is fucking terrible and we would likely just make things even worse then they are now.
Yeah -- except for Germany (which had massive help from other Allied powers, like the UK), Japan, and South Korea (the only two success stories), every attempt by the US to rebuild other nations in their image/according to their values has failed in the most spectacular fashion.
If there is covert assistance to these elements to help Russia basically collapse, when Russia does collapse, they'll have to work shit out on their own again.
America trying to stick its dick into that frozen hellhole will just result in a frostbitten dick.
Russia already messes with our internals, and have since like the 60's, if not earlier (A-bomb blue prints sold by Rosenbergs ring a bell).
We don't need to conquer or nation build Russia, we just need to neuter Russia's/Putin's imperial ambitions by turning them into a giant North Korea in term of sanctions and the punishments for breaking them, along with restricting any official, public, and even private citizens of Russia from visiting outside their nation or places like the CCP/NK, and destroy their oil industry with fusion power.
Make it so that Putin and his cronies will be lynched by their own citizens for what they have done tot their futures or their children futures. Remove Russian forces from the Kurile, South Ossetia, Konisgberg, and make sure every Russian from here on curses Putin for what he did to his nation and it's future.
We cannot fix or save Russia, and it's not worth it to try to utterly destroy it in warfare, but we can limit the damage Russians can do to the rest of the world.
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