"You seem to assume the US is "out to get" Russia"
I do not have to assume anything, I just have to read official government policy. Please see the theme of the June, 2022 CSCE conference, called simply “Decolonizing Russia: A Moral and Strategic Imperative”.
https://www.csce.gov/international-impact/events/decolonizing-russia
Before that, there was the Hudson Institute's conference: "Preparing for the Dissolution of the Russian Federation".
https://www.hudson.org/events/preparing-dissolution-russian-federation
As you know, Hudson is a premier DC think tank.
I suggest you read and respond to my other article where I do a deep dive on the history and the depth and breadth of the USA's plans to destroy Russia, starting in the post-Revolution civil war, up through "Operation Unthinkable" and to the present day:
"Slaughtering Russia is U.S. Policy"
