Those Eastern Slavs just don't know what to do. One week they're flirting with the West, the next they're chumming it up among themselves, declaring eternal friendships and establishing monetary unions. In all truthfulness, it all looks like a grand farce, and one can't help but wonder how long the self-delusional circus will go on. Cold-shouldered at NATO's Prague summit, Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma, who so earnestly wants to befriend the West, now finds himself an outcast. What does he do? He runs to Vladimir Putin and declares undying loyalty, when in the back of his mind he fantas...
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