RSSFor Saker up is down and white is black. According to him demise of USSR was good for Russia but it was the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century for his idol V. Putin. Catastrophic loss of territory and population including over 40 million ethic Russians is good. Many more rabidly anti-Russian states on its borders (and it will get much, much worse) is good. Total loss of strategic depth is good. NATO ships and troops and their regular exercises in the Black Sea, which this lunatic still calls “the Russian lake”, is good. Being almost totally surrounded (under siege) is good. Enlargement of EU and NATO to enormous proportions by “swallowing” former Soviet states and eastern-European nations i.e., the former allies and countrymen is good. Should I continue? For years Russia has tried to accomplish what all these small new states accomplished seemingly so easy. It desperately offered itself multiple times for the membership in NATO and EU carelessly trampling upon the interest of its friends and allies, without looking either left or right. But it wasn’t to be! The road to paradise has ended up on the edge of hell. And…why should anybody care?