What is old is new again. Crimea, empire, , national mythos, Now what Why Losing Crimea Will Destroy Putin

RantWoman greatly esteems Vlad Vexler for trenchant commentary about historical dimension of the current Russia Invaded Ukraine unpleasantness.

Enjoy this latest dispatch and then RantWoman will riff further.

and now Rasputin Performance by Boney M

Themes RantWoman is pulling at:

--the ins and outs of empire.

Sex and guns and murder and scandal

--charismatic religiosity whether related to inbred European royal families hemophilia problems or the #Pandemic, 

--malignant vehemence among onlookers to the war.

--social upheavals of different eras.