Originally Posted by
Lonewolf_50
That's the point that you keep getting wrong. The USSR, for example, broke up without NATO being in Moscow.
Russia is a country. USSR was a collection of independent countries, who each decided (including the main one Russia), that going further on their own would be more beneficial to all.
Breaking-up the Russian Federation, would imply breaking-up a country with a central government, law, currency, etc (vs. multiple governments for the USSR, with each a lot of "freedom" to decide).