The World Bank filled Yeltsin with economic theories that automatically create an oligarchic kleptocracy leading to a depression.
As for Russian foreign policy, Oliver North followed the party-line by calling Yeltsin "the butcher of Chechnya," being totally ignorant that, like Bosnia and Kosovo, Chechnya was a main launching point for Islamic genocide against non-Moslems.
Decider Dubya hired Neo-Condi Rice, an Affirmative-Action bimbo who knew nothing about foreign threats except the defunct one about the Soviet Union. He occupied Afghanistan solely as an outpost against Russia.