The only way to beat/conquer the Russian identity is to exhaust it. History has not found a way of doing this. As yet.

Russians who go abroad and/or spend a lot of time among people in the West come to see a different way; one which they often and ultimately embrace, only to never return to their home country.

But we all know that 'travel' is not a cure for identity crisis. People travel and often learn nothing. Even those in the West.

The thing that brought the Russian culture to overthrow the Czarist rule was not a magical political theory that was absolutely amazing, but cruel oppression and ignorant government institutions for years on end, as they watched a burgeoning elite embrace and benefit from European values. Revolution often finds merely convenient means and theories, as an escape route.

If we assume the Czarist impulse which bled into the Soviet system will never be satiated in its hunger for expansion, all we can do is what one's older, wiser brother does to its enraged younger brother: put your hand on his forehead, extend your arm, and let him swing away.

Otherwise you have to beat him to a pulp. But usually younger brothers don't have nuclear arsenals.