Posted on 07/27/2014 2:22:11 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Yes, I know, with many of them it is not possible to carry on even the most basic conversation and talking about abstract concepts with them is like talking to a tree.
“... most of Ukraine has historically been part of Russia. ...”
This statement is in error. Anyone who believes it clings to a historical perspective vanishingly short. Even the briefest search on the terms “Kievan Rus” will reveal that the region we are now pleased to call “Ukraine” dominated Europe, in a time when exiled Swedish Vikings were still mulling their chances of portaging skin boats to a spot that hadn’t yet been named Moskva.
“...Maybe it is time for use to just stay home and let the messes sort themselves out...”
Pretending that “staying home” is any sort of option bespeaks an otherworldly nostalgia for that pre-1861 Agrarian Republic that never existed, not in the way so many forum members so fervently believe. Leaving the world to “sort itself out” is not a strategy; it is a self-congratulatory, self-righteous fantasy.
What’s more, it doesn’t work.
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