that might work, yes. I wouldn't expect it to last forever though because the US gov doesn't like jurisdictions that evade their power. Russians could seize it if they felt like it too. I have some experience with that.

Ideally you would exploit bad diplomatic relations between nations to keep things running. Mutually non cooperative jurisdictions can actually be good for the internet. I do think the intention of the US gov is to completely control the internet though, copyright and DRM violations being a major motivation. As much as they claim they are about 'cooperation and collaboration' or some other nonsense, it's really about hard power.

I wonder how far we are from partitioning the DNS with alternate roots. If the Ukraine war doesn't make it happen, DRM violations might.

Russian authorities blocked some zlib domains in the past, so "ru" may be not suitable.