Thank you for the clarification, there are alot of grey areas with this.
Just like China for example… the original controller by setup -is- Japanese, but it’s really not, it’s China.
The fear is that someone misinterprets the rules, then ALWAYS attacks all neutrals with Russia (in a Sealion game), simply for all the + 3 grabs.
Imagine a Russian attack on Mongolia under this false pretense…