Sometimes common wisdom is way off the mark. Over the last few years we have pointed out that the PC wasn't going to disappear, the price of gold was overblown, the pundits of gloom were mostly not worth listening to, the occupiers had little case, the deficit was substantially media hype, and the appeasement of enemies is generally not a winning strategy.
What I am going to say now seems absurd on its face, even to me who is writing it, but here I go.
My parents were born in Russia. Their citizenship papers say they were born in Russia. Specifically they were born in Ukraine, Russia. In my family it was taken as a statement of fact that they were from Russia. I took a look at Wikipedia and it was obvious, for several hundred years, Ukraine was considered Russia.
Somehow or other the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the name Russia was called by, ceded Ukraine to its own independence. Now there is man by the name of Mr. Putin who thinks that breaking up the union was a very negative development for his country.
The Civil War in the United States was initially about maintaining the union between the North and the South, it was not initially fought over slavery. I'm not sure that maintaining the Russian union is not as important to them as it was to us during the Civil War.
What am I missing?
What I am going to say now seems absurd on its face, even to me who is writing it, but here I go.
My parents were born in Russia. Their citizenship papers say they were born in Russia. Specifically they were born in Ukraine, Russia. In my family it was taken as a statement of fact that they were from Russia. I took a look at Wikipedia and it was obvious, for several hundred years, Ukraine was considered Russia.
Somehow or other the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, the name Russia was called by, ceded Ukraine to its own independence. Now there is man by the name of Mr. Putin who thinks that breaking up the union was a very negative development for his country.
The Civil War in the United States was initially about maintaining the union between the North and the South, it was not initially fought over slavery. I'm not sure that maintaining the Russian union is not as important to them as it was to us during the Civil War.
What am I missing?
