To what extent is this different than what the US currently does?

This just reads like a guy that was frustrated by the fall of the Soviet Union and Americas following hegemony, and said: what if we did all that.

Especially the tactic of destabilizing rivals, for example: how sincere can Americas concern for a Muslim minority be in China when they have directly caused the death of millions in all their illegal Middle-East adventures of the past decades.

The US has done many of these things, it’s true. A few differences IMO are:

So, given the choice between being under US hegemony or Russian imperialism, I personally would choose to ally myself with the US. Though, as a resident of the EU, in a country formerly a Soviet sattelite state, I would prefer to be beholden to neither.