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Again, look at what happens to cultures of people that are "dominated demographically" (or as you said before, "making natives in all of its neighbouring countries of today that were part of Russian empire, minority in their own lands") by others (hint: it does not bode well for the survival of the culture being dominated).1ans. Not to replace just be a dominant demographic , in OTL Russians were majority in Grozny even after return of the Chechens, when it started to be chechen city again and their culture survived but havent reached its potential heights because Russia couldnt always provide fair treatment and security But even after such challenging history Chechens survived .
I still don't understand what you are trying to say2answr.I repeat stereotypicaly you know Serbs being haters of everything they encounter , Americans mindless consumer-bots and all those lies that started to show up in pop culture about groups of people , without a lot of fuss .
You still haven't touched on why a small Russia surrounded by, say, an independent Cossack Hetmanate to the West, independent Caucasus Kingdoms to the south, maybe a Chinese-dominated Siberia to the East, etc. would be bad for Eurasian peace.3answr. Russia had to expand because of EE plain and highway from Berlin to Moscow so it can have some breathing space beteen its vulnerable heartland and borders of western powers , threat of slave raiding horsemen of Crimea , Caucasus and Central Asia created the need for russian answer Cossacks and agressive policy toward those people to stop population loss in the steppes , toghether with need to stop Ottoman empire and its islamic brethren from enslaving Russia .So only way to stop bunch of unemployed young men from pillaging Russia was to control them somehow and the first thing Russians learned from dealing with peoples of the steppes is that their needs change from year to year so only way Russia could gurantee safety to its citizens was direct military control exercised through cossack stanizas .