Despite appeals from many quarters to pray for Ukraine (which - TopicsExpress



          

Despite appeals from many quarters to pray for Ukraine (which often hides a disapproval of the reality of Ukraines need for Russian rather than European hegemony), neither side in this internal conflict, exacerbated by exaggerated nationalism, Western (and particularly American) interventionism and the innate inability for compromise among neighbours at war for the last 4 or 5 centuries (does Europe really know anything about the raging mutual hatred between, for instance, Orthodox (pro-Moscow, pro-Constantinople and pro-Kiev tendancies) and Catholics (Greek Catholic Uniate and pro-Polish, even pro-Austrian, Latin), which were smothered by the blanket of Communism between 1918 and 1989?) has the will, or probably the possibility to cultivate a European mentality or a genuine European identity. The one thing they do agree on is that they are not Russians (The Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev, born in Kursk in Russia, identified himself as a Ukrainian who succeeded in imposing himself on Russia), or at least, they think they are not ...
Posted on: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:09:56 +0000

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