If it could just go ahead and collapse quite soon, that would be great.
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US and China will know before it happens. You'll see a mad scramble to secure nuclear assets
If a render safe mission happens then they haven't just collapsed like before. They would have to be not replaced, causing an immense power vacuum. It's also functionally impossible to secure all the nukes of a country Russia's size. The military refuses to guarantee it even for India or Pakistan.
Missions to secure nuclear weapons happened when the Soviet Union collapsed and the Russian government invited the US in to do some of them. The missions wouldn't be to take the sites and disarm the weapons, the goal would be to make sure all weapons are accounted for, being properly maintained, and under the control of a government. It would be to make sure the Russian arsenal wasn't being sold or taken by splinter groups or extremists rather than to disarm Russia. I expect China would be doing a lot more of it than the US if Russia collapsed in the near future but the US as well as UN nuclear inspectors would almost certainly have a role.
The US also bought Russian nukes. The nucleae material ended up being used as fuel for US nuclear power plants.
Also a huge part of building the ISS was to keep Russian rocket experts in Russia, rather then helping some other dictator.
That's quite different from the mad scramble. That's a normal process. Although in the modern day a new Russian government might instead invite the Chinese and EU. It would have the same effect while snubbing the US. It all depends on where they want to go with things.
True enough if it happens. Putin seems to have his Oligarchs convinced he can form a coalition with China, India, Iran and North Korea that can stand against the west.
At least they're convinced for now. If that changes, the rest of the world will find out posthumously.
Revolution is three meals away.
We'll see how winter will be for the russians this year.