http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20050509-095716-8631r
Arnaud de Borchgrave
"From bleeding-heart liberals to cold-hearted conservative realists, everyone professed shock and awe when Russia's President Vladimir Putin called the breakup of the former Soviet Union the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century. Yet it was a statement of the obvious, because that's precisely what it was. "