For the majority of peoples and therefore nations, to be sovereign, they have to be able to play the various competing powers against eachother - one (even a declining one like RU) going down is not good for the stability of the world and will allow the heirs of white supremacist colonialists to run rampant as they have done for the past few centuries.
For the majority of peoples and therefore nations, to be sovereign, they have to be able to play the various competing powers against eachother - one (even a declining one like RU) going down is not good for the stability of the world and will allow the heirs of white supremacist colonialists to run rampant as they have done for the past few centuries.