"Russia’s Foreign Ministry has been drawing up plans to try to weaken its Western adversaries, including the US, & leverage the Ukraine war to forge a global order free from American dominance, according to a secret Foreign Ministry document." https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/17/russia-foreign-policy-us-weaken/…

“Russia can create difficulties for the U.S. in many different regions of the world,” the academic said. “This is about the Middle East, northeast Asia, the African continent and even Latin America.”

“For Putin it's absolutely natural that he should try to create the maximum number of problems for the US" said @Mikhail Khodorkovsky “The task is to take the US out of the game & then destroy NATO. This doesn’t mean dissolving it, but create the feeling that it isn’t defending them”