It is most definitely the west and principally the US that needs to understand that the events of 1989-1990 did not confer a crown of world domination on them and assign Russia to a permenant vassal status. The PNAC crowd and friends have found that the loss of the boogyman of the Worldwide Communist Menace has been a bit inconvinient. the Worldwide Terrorist Menace is a bit vague. They seem to be struggling tho fill that void.