Likely, but this entire chain of events is the result of our support of Yurchenko, and that was not a correct action.
We got a totally unneeded crisis with Russia at the time when there are a plenty of other things that require attention.
I disagree. Our support of a free election in the Ukraine is a result of earlier Russian actions - namely, the Oil-for-Food graft and Russian support for Saddam in the UNSC. Don't fall into the "what did we do to make them hate us?" trap. That's how left-wingers think (or, more precisely, want you and I to think), and that's why Democrats have no clue about foreign policy. It's very self-centered to imagine that everything that happens is a result of something you do. Again that's a socialist tendency, to believe that man controls everything, and that everything is in reaction to his behavior.
How have you come to the conclusion that this is because of Yushcenko?
I can hardly wait to hear this latest creation.