The sad thing is that the people gave up on the USSR which had many good points along with the bad,but for what?

So that oligarchs could "steal" everything that was worth having, lots of wars between people who had previously managed to live together without killing each other... and the rest of the country fell into chaos and disrepair, and Russians got a bad reputation

Everyone in Western Europe at least, at that time, knew that Eastern Europeans were "naive" and did not know the true value of things + lots of other things that people need to know in a capitalist society. There were lots of funny stories from Eastern Germany about that, because things happened so fast there. I am sure America took as much advantage of it as they could.

CIA analysts and others have scenarios for "what to do if x happens".
I am sure they had tons or ready-made plans for what to do in lots of different spheres, if the USSR started falling apart. From the point of view of economy, military. It was their dream come true anyway, and I think it has played out almost exactly as they wanted up until Putin came along.

If I was Russian, I think I would have preferred to keep the USSR together, and reform it at a slower pace, or perhaps revise why there were problems with Communism. Like Gorbachev tried, but without letting things get out of hand.

That said, I am really happy that Russia and the other countries are more open now, and that there is more freedom for regular people.