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They can follow the leads of Japan and Germany.

Unconditional surrender, with a complete cultural restructure and admitting to the atrocities, and prosecuting everyone responsible is a good start.

But of course, that won't happen anytime soon.

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But that would imply Russia becoming a neo-colony of the US, like the two mentioned countries. Which I don't think would ever happen, I think Russia would chose MAD over that if forced to make that choice. Russia under Yeytsin was already drifting towards becoming something like that, and has been firmly going in the other direction ever since

Russia can't choose anything by itself. It's the people in Kremlin who will decide, like it was when Stalin died.

I'd dispute that Germany and Japan are neo-colonys of the US. Where are the colonial governors?

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