The idea of a peaceful Europe that respects each other’s borders is a myth.
1946-1991 was an anomaly in time.
What happened in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia is the norm."
UMCRevMom@aol.com : "I appreciate your on-topic thoughtful comment. Thanks"
Thoughtful, maybe, but still raw Russian propaganda sewage.
The whole truth is vastly different.
Vlad the Invader's "special military operations" in Ukraine are not just a "border dispute", they are not just about "a sliver of land" in Ukraine.
They are not even all about Ukraine.
Rather, they are all about Vlad the Invader's New Russian Empire building, to intimidate & force countries of the Old Soviet or Tsarist Russian Empire to submit to Vlad the Invader's rule.
More than even that, it's all about a new Axis of Evil -- Russia, China, Iran and NoKo -- which has gelled together in response to perceived declines in American specifically and Western generally global influences.
As we are perceived weaker, they grow ever more aggressive against small countries like Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan.
We can be certain that every loss for us is a gain in their powers and their evil designs on smaller neighbors.
In historical terms, today is similar to the mid-1930s, when imperialists, fascists and Nazis were marching worldwide, while we stood around with our heads planted firmly in the sand saying, "it's not our war".
So, we can ignore Ukraine today, and ignore Israel tomorrow and ignore Taiwan next month, but they will never be the last.
For aggressive dictators like Vlad the Invader, the CCP's Xi-snake, NoKo's Little Kim and Iran's Moolah Mullahs, there are always new victims to attack, new territories to be conquered, so long as nobody has the courage to stop them.
As for Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, they were formed out of the collapse of Old Yugoslavia, which sadly was not as peaceful as the Old Soviet Union's collapse.
Nevertheless, those new countries are now free and independent, protected by their allies from outside aggression and nobody has sought to reconstitute the old Yugoslavia.
That is far from the case with Vlad the Invader's reborn Russian Empire and former Soviet countries, now freed at last but again threatened by Russian imperial ambitions.
That's the whole truth of this matter.