Watt's Gnus

Ukraine thoughts... among many.

Although I think history helps understand conflicts like the Catholic/Calvinists in Ireland and Catholic/Orthodox in Croatia/Serbia it all comes down to splitters wanting a fight (or being left alone) while lumpers want to unite (or subjugate). Brexit/EU and US/NATO splits (attempted under the previous US president) comes to mind. Few people rarely want war, but they'll sure support it!

and have stated their neutrality and with all due respect this IS another European War. And very much a Christian War (The Ukrainian Orthodox split from the Russian Patriarchy in 2019) that in some ways does not involve those of us who are not Christian.

The War in Ukraine though does upend stability and although isolationists (like here in Montana) oppose any involvement the globalization of knowledge (google), social media (facebook etc), markets, travel, cellphones (eyewitness updates) does not allow anyone anywhere to remain unaffected (untouched) by current events.

At risk: the right to a national identity. In the US this applies to Hawai'i and Puerto Rico, in Spain to Catalonia, in the Balkans to Kosovo, in Morroco to the Sahrawi, in Asia to Taiwan. These conflicts are uneffected (not settled).

Thanks for posting on the Newsfeed, Sparky. "Note: An article everyone should read Kyivan-Rus - Wh..."