The "fall" of the USSR was less important than the segmentation of the Russian Empire that quickly followed dismantling the soviet administrative apparatus. WHO, precisely,, was responsible for this catastrophic historic blunder??? The US is expert in destroying other empires, while using the fragments to make its own single world-empire. The Ottoman Empire, the German/Austro-Hungarian Empire (1919), the Japanese Empire (1945), The French Empire (Indo-China 1950s and currently in Africa), the British Empire (with British cooperation from 1946 to the present), the Soviet-European Empire (1990s) and the Soviet-Eurasian Empire (1990s-to present) - these are the realities of twentieth-century history. And twentieth-century history should be studied from this perspective... There is a distinct style to the American method of disintegration. After "liberating" or otherwise destabilizing a country, a perfidious hand of friendship holds out "aid"; the loan quickly becomes a chain binding the pseudo-independent country to US banks and the IMF; naturally the creditors want to secure their loan, so soon a military arrangement makes US-NATO military masters of a country which cannot survive as a micro-economic unit in a world where distribution is controlled by the imperial system. Learn and take appropriate action NOW to prevent the process disintegrating Russia itself. A partitioned Russia would be the most colossal betrayal of Russian history. But this possibility is not fantasy. Preemptive war is now embedded in the US military-political mindset. The western economies cannot survive without permanent war and a permanent war-machine. The only question is: Where will it strike next? ACT so that the victim will NOT be Russia.