Is It Actually Possible To Target Direct Fat Loss? (Fat Loss VS Weight Loss)

If you lose 1kg of Fat directly, and lose nothing else. You lose 1kg of weight. How could you not? Confused by what you are asking tbh.

If you go into a calorie surplus, keeping protein intake high and doing resistance training is the best thing you can do to minimise muscle loss. There's a variety of other minor changes you can make, but the above is the most important.

That's just not possible. Why does "staying the same weight" even matter?

Muscle is far denser than fat, someone 90kg 5% fat looks completely different from someone 90kg with 20% fat.

Besides, if the OP has 5kg of fat to lose for instance, there is no way they are replacing this with 5kg of muscle.

Yeah that's that part that doesn't make sense. If you target fat directly, you will lose weight/mass too. Fat has mass.
To stay the same weight you need to also add muscle, but that's not what OP asked.

Your believe is incorrect, is impossible to lose fat without losing muscle. There will still be a direct weight lost equal to the fat, obviously as fat has mass. The more aggressive your deficit, you current compeition, and your diet will affect have mush fat you can lose before losing muscle.

I'm not a body builder… but for an example, when you see a body builder going on a cut… yes they lose a lot of fat, but their overall size mass is so much smaller at the end of their cut. So in other words was all that mass they just lost, fat? They still exercise throughout their cut, but are usually a lot smaller in size, albeit more shredded.

A body builder is pushing things to extreme limits. They are carrying an abundance of muscle which means the people is more primed to reduce it. And they have already less fat mass to begin with, which limits the fat they can lose per day.
Bodybuilders are relevant to only body builders.

At the other end is bariatric patients. They have massive amounts of fat, which means they can lose a much higher amount of fat per day. The results is losing kilos per week and all of it fat.

Most of us lie somewhere between those two extremes.

Which brings me back to my original question (sorry to confuse), is it possible to directly target fat loss, without losing muscle?

Yes you can target fat only. Every kilo of fat you lose means 1 less kilo of total body weight/mass.

The amount you can lose before starting to also lose muscles is dependent on the variables above.
Unless you are extremely lean, this is probably over focusing on detail

Did you misread my post, or are you really doubt that a kilo of fat = 1 kilo of body mass?
I'd have thought that was a simple idea and was a bit confused about the OPs question tbh.

Calorie deficit is a key