There is always a chance. Yeltsin was that --albeit he was the wrong buy to have there --an alcoholic who didn't care about any consequence to his country. Bu

There is always a chance. Yeltsin was that --albeit he was the wrong buy to have there --an alcoholic who didn't care about any consequence to his country. But someone like Medvedev, who had a business focus, could have had potential to create some allyship --such as had existed prior to the WWs --with other European nations as well as the US.