Chance To Break Up Russian Federation Starts To Emerge as Moscow’s Forces Flounder in Ukraine

Ex-analyst of the CIA says America has a chance to challenge China in the vast and resource-rich heartland known as the Republic of Sakha.

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A man on a snowy street at Yakutsk, Siberia, the capital of the Russian republic of Sakha, in December 1965. Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images

As independence movements stir in Siberia, Washington has a chance to parry future Chinese moves, according to an American analyst of separatist movements in Russia, a federation of 83 territories.

“Better a protectorate of China than ruled by Moscow? There are a lot of people in eastern Russia who think that way,” Paul A. Goble, a former CIA analyst, warns the Sun. “It is critically in the interest of the U.S. that China not be the only player. I hope the Japanese also will play a role.”

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