Monday, March 3, 2014

Unintended consequences of history......

This sounds really familiar:

Ukraine isn’t a country: it’s a Frankenstein monster composed of pieces of dead empires, stitched together by Stalin. It has never had a government in the Western sense of the term after the collapse of the Soviet Union gave it independence, just the equivalent of the family offices for one predatory oligarch after another...

-Spengler, as excerpted from here

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