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Here's what happens if it goes ahead. Russia (and allied countries) ISPs update their config to point to root servers that do resolve .ru and .su, and they can then fallback to the usual servers for the rest of the world. And hey, maybe now they have that infra, they decide that in Russia, whitehouse.gov points somewhere else now

Anybody can ask anyone to suspend a ccTLD. Doesn't mean they're going to do it.

They expect that the US won't do that because it would violate Americans' expectations about good and evil.

Sure, the US has never done _anything_ that violates expectations about good and evil.

Of course they have. But in Western countries governments still need to sell their position to the public or it will typically cost them an election. So, typically, it's safe to expect on simple issues like letting Libya keep their ccTLD that they won't bother. The article gave another example about Ukraine where, as expected, they didn't bother.