A History of Ukraine: The Gates of Europe(an War) - part 26

Something of a Ukrainian history lesson, using Serhii Plokhy's 2015 book The Gates of Europe, and focused on matters relative to today's war, including Ukrainian cultural development and nationalism, Russian influence, the role of Jews in this history, and even the Ukrainian Greek Catholic or Uniate Church. Oh, and Austrian Galicia too.

Parts 25 and 26 cover the last period in the book, from the 2004 Orange Revolution election of Victor Yushchenko through EuroMaidan in 2013-14 and the Russian reaction, all of this transitioning the book from a work of popular history to a political skree supporting the neocon US-led west's view of the current situation. I end this with an initial addressing of the NATO paradigm, introducing Prof. John-Paul Himka, a Ukrainian historian, who I will eventually utilize in a deeper examination of this history tied to western Ukraine/Galicia and nationalism, semi-schismatic Catholicism, and of course the Ashkenazi Jews.