Comments - Archduke Ferdinand alive and well ... - Gaia Community2024-03-29T11:10:17Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A14360&xn_auth=noIS the world about to experi…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2014-02-26:5313775:Comment:162902014-02-26T15:48:30.631ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<div class="firstPar"><p><br></br><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10659040/Is-Ukraines-misery-the-next-Black-Swan-for-Wests-financial-markets.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">IS the world about to experience</a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>another</em></span> <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-if" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Black Swan</a></strong>, <em>a seemingly…</em></span></p>
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<div class="firstPar"><p><br/><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/jeremy-warner/10659040/Is-Ukraines-misery-the-next-Black-Swan-for-Wests-financial-markets.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">IS the world about to experience</a> <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><em>another</em></span> <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/what-if" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Black Swan</a></strong>, <em>a seemingly improbable or unpredictable</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>turn of events with deeply negative consequences for financial markets and the economy </em>? </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Developments in Kiev certainly have the potential to turn into such a catastrophe, for they are not</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">just about Ukraine. Just as the Syrian civil war reflects a wider regional struggle between Iran and</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">Saudi Arabia for political and religious supremacy, Ukraine finds itself the luckless victim of much</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">bigger forces than its own internal divisions - centuries old East/West rivalries and ambitions. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Ukraine’s <em>disgusting kleptocracy</em> deserves to fail</strong>; <strong><em>genuine democracy and rule of law in this</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>brutalised nation would be an overwhelmingly positive development</em></strong>. Yet there is something</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">almost Napoleonic about the idealistic fervour with which Europe pursues its eastern ambitions.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>That said, <em>the forces that turned the assassination</em> of Archduke Ferdinand <em>into the greatest</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>conflict in history</em> simply don’t exist today</strong>. Despite occasional sabre-rattling, the world is</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">generally better at muddling along together than it has ever been. The big, intra and inter-regional</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;">conflicts of the last century are unthinkable.</span></p>
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<p></p> Within a year the UK will be…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-11-08:5313775:Comment:158862013-11-08T18:33:46.499ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Within a year the UK will be immersed in the first stage</strong> of a <em><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10436438/The-true-significance-of-the-First-World-War.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank">centenary commemoration</a></strong></em> like no other the world has seen: that of the First World War. <em>But what will that great commemoration of the</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>Great War be…</em></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>Within a year the UK will be immersed in the first stage</strong> of a <em><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10436438/The-true-significance-of-the-First-World-War.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">centenary commemoration</a></strong></em> like no other the world has seen: that of the First World War. <em>But what will that great commemoration of the</em></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>Great War be like </em>?</span></p>
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