Doesn't look that sovereign to me, if the US can dictate their foreign policy, funded 9/10 of its media outlets and they pay for their entire military apparatus (with LOANS, no less). That sounds like a satellite state to me.

Anyway, you can keep plugging your ears and covering your eyes and pretending it hasn't been explained to you a hundred times that Russia doesn't need minerals, nor land, nor resources, but an assurance that nuclear capabilities aren't being deployed along its border. I don't mind deluded libs, y'all the ones burying the empire after all.