Does South Korea have a mind of its own or is it a puppet who does what US tells them? Also I thought Japan and South Korea are very close American allies so the USA can decisively defeat China in Taiwan.

Interesting that you're postulating on the collapse of the RF. Now, in Western media, we're not talking about the collapse of RF at all. I think most Americans are simply tired to the Ukraine conflict after 3 months and we had many mass shootings recently and inflated gas prices to even care...