Im with you 100% and it scares me to death. My mother went through WWII. My grandparents were Dutch underground members. On the other side, my family were Republican resisters in the Spanish civil war, my great grandfather assassinated on the street in front if his house, my grandfather imprisoned, my father forced to flee to the US and not return for a decade, due to fascist oppression.
As a result of this history, war, it's causes and effects has always been a topic in my family. It caused my to study history for awhile. I eventually got bored and changed majors, but I never forget a professor explaining the delicate, geographical balance of territories and how minor shifts can cause global wars.
This was 20 years ago and back then he stated that the state of the works map was similarly precarious when compared to the state before our last two world wars. Any shift and bam.
We've had many shifts since then, Puti's Ukranian land grab one of the most significant. Putin has worried me greatly. I so agree with you Steely, that hes using the same justifications as Hitler. He also has the same blind adoration of his citizenry Then situation with Ukraine has caused me a lot of anxiety. It's a global disaster in the making.
This just makes it all so much worse.
