No. This had to come to a head eventually. Russia has to end its dependence on the tsarist power structure and join the modern cooperative world. We don't live

No. This had to come to a head eventually. Russia has to end its dependence on the tsarist power structure and join the modern cooperative world. We don't live in the middle ages anymore. However, Bush's hard push was definitely a foolish move that made things worse than they could have been. What's happening now is (unfortunately) probably the least bloody way to topple Russia's (hopefully?) last tsar. But even then it's hard to say if this is really the end of Ivan the Terrible's legacy... We also thought that Gorbachev and Yeltsin marked the end. Old habits die hard.