[hardspunned]

Once this concludes, Ukraine will resemble 1946 Germany, the Russian section and the western occupation zones. At that point Cold War II will have officially started. The biggest difference will the length of the frontier. It will be eyeball to eyeball “Checkpoint Charlie” confrontation from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

--- "Once this concludes, Ukraine will resemble 1946 Germany, the Russian section and the western occupation zones. At that point Cold War II will have officially started. The biggest difference will the length of the frontier. It will be eyeball to eyeball 'Checkpoint Charlie' confrontation from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea."

Could very well be.

A difference might also be the "post-war" reform. After WWII, the US essentially assisted Europe in rebuilding. (And we paid back some of the massive debt of that time, in the post war period.) With all the nations now in various levels of debt, a question will become "who pays." Or at least, who finances?

Given the current pabulum that trillions must be spent to fight climate change, not to mention coming pandemics and more, the "welfare state" model which we Westerners -- especially the Europeans -- have become accustomed to will have to be jettisoned, in part.

It is an interesting time in which to live.

[Mark17]

“Checkpoint Charlie” confrontation from the Black Sea to the Barents Sea.

I went through checkpoint Charlie several times. It gave me a strange feeling, when I read the sign, “you are leaving the American sector.”