“Ukraine is an unnatural and artificial construct” - as are most ‘nation’ states, ‘created’ since the 19th century. Read Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities. The issue of Ukraine is not its split between Western Ukraine, being a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, before WW I, and Eastern Ukraine, a part of Russia, but the militarisation of this difference. Sadly.
This is going to make a lot of people very uncomfortable.
That's okay I'll be vindicated in 5 years (if) we are all here to talk about it
Your survival instincts and awareness are clearly strong, so odds are in your favor.
“Ukraine is an unnatural and artificial construct” - as are most ‘nation’ states, ‘created’ since the 19th century. Read Benedict Anderson: Imagined Communities. The issue of Ukraine is not its split between Western Ukraine, being a part of Austro-Hungarian Empire, before WW I, and Eastern Ukraine, a part of Russia, but the militarisation of this difference. Sadly.