The State Department's plan was simple and even elegant. Create a group of radical Islamists that will turn the Middle East into a boiling cauldron of continuous war, and when the steam from this cauldron bursts out, set the radicals against Russia. But something happened that no one expected. The Orange Revolution actually took place in Russia and pro-Western forces came to power. The West sharply slammed on the brakes and actually withdrew from the shareholders of the Islamic State project, an organization banned in our country. Turkey, which was bogged down head over heels in this protracted conflict, found itself out of the game, but that is why it decided to take the Caucasus from Russia...