[tlozo]

The mistakes were made at the end of the Cold War. We could have aligned with Russia

Sure, we could have worked with a KGB agent who said that the collapse of the Soviet empire "was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the century".

[cowboyusa]

Yelsten was PM at the time. Clinton deserves the blame there. He was more focusing on meddling in Yougosalvia, where we had no busniess.