Ukraine is Russia’s Ireland   Ukrainians are Russia’s Irish.   However, it is worse for the Ukrainians than for the Irish; since there is no Irish Sea separating Ukraine from    Russia, just vast vistas of grains.   Imagine if you will, how much more England would covet Ireland, if Ireland contained Camelot and Avalon, Stonehenge and Westminster Abby, Stratford on Avon and Blenheim  on its soil, and not British soil.   That is Ukraine’s existential problem in a nutshell; on its current land, it contains the mystical ground which gave Russia, the LAY OF IGOR’S CAMPAIGN; the first two Saints canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church, Boris and Gleb,  were from Kiev. The Russian Orthodox Church itself started in Ukraine . The scene of Russia’s first great military victory, as a great European power, is located in Ukraine, Poltava.   On current Ukrainian soil, is the mystical ground which gave Russia-RUSSIA. Ukraine is Ireland; Russia is Grea...

This Blogger believes that it may well be time to license intellectuals. This society can no longer survive with its intellectual class being anointed by THE ATLANTIC, NEW YORK TIMES, CNN, MSNBC and assorted moth ridden academics and not by successful empirical observation. For what is the true purpose of intellectuals? To find fault with the past? To denigrate Robert E. Lee? To chastise Winston Churchill? To trumpet a Liberalism which is Orwellian in its conceptualization and execution ?   To demand conformity in society? To punish free thinkers? To administer a Grand Inquisition to make Americans swear allegiance to multiculturalism?     No, the purpose of an intellectual is to be a canary in the mine; to inform the hard-working people of the dangers ahead, to be accurate in one's  predictions about the future.     H.G. Wells    was an intellectual; as was John Brown, who stated at his hanging for attempting to overthrow the old decadent or...