WI right after the dissolution of the USSR the traditional enemies of the russian empire start scrambling for power and influence in the newly liberated ex soviet republics
Turkey signing defence deals with azerbaijan , on the condition of totally blocking all russian interests
Iran trying to woo armenia into its camp and making aggressive claims into caspian oil fields
Pakistan , Egypt and Saudi Arabia aggressively spreading a puratinical sunni islam and funding arming islamists groups in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Kazakhstan and Tajikistan
Japan pushing russia hard on the Kurils issue
All these countries realize this is a once in a century chance of a major weakness in russia and are trying to maximize their areas on influence , soviet military is in disarry , nuclear weapons cannot be used as a threat as there is no direct conventional war
How will Russia react to this ?
Turkey signing defence deals with azerbaijan , on the condition of totally blocking all russian interests
Iran trying to woo armenia into its camp and making aggressive claims into caspian oil fields
Pakistan , Egypt and Saudi Arabia aggressively spreading a puratinical sunni islam and funding arming islamists groups in Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan Kazakhstan and Tajikistan
Japan pushing russia hard on the Kurils issue
All these countries realize this is a once in a century chance of a major weakness in russia and are trying to maximize their areas on influence , soviet military is in disarry , nuclear weapons cannot be used as a threat as there is no direct conventional war
How will Russia react to this ?