That's not a very good map. As the crows fly... The Distance between Ukraine and Moscow is 468.5 mile. The Distance between Latvia and Moscow is 522 miles. The distance between Moscow and Estonia is 510 miles.
The USA wanted Russian Nuclear weapons removed from Cuba. Now, Russia wants NATO out of a bordering country (Ukraine) which is the closest of NATO bordering countries to Moscow.
Let's not forget the U.S. Monroe document which forbid weapons and hostile actions toward the u.s.a. At its borders.
Now, What happens to this world is something should happen to jumping joe Biden while he visits with nato friendlies and eu leaders in Brussels next week? Remember what Don Corleone taught the world (see below.)
I wish Europeans would Tell Biden to stay home and Zoom the meeting.
Carry on brothers and sisters in Europe.
“But let me say this. I am a superstitious man, a ridiculous failing but I must confess it here. And so if some unlucky accident should befall my youngest son, if some police officer should accidentally shoot him, if he should hang himself while in his jail cell, if new witnesses appear to testify to his guilt, my superstition will make me feel that it was the result of the ill will still borne me by some people here. Let me go further. If my son is struck by a bolt of lightning I will blame some of the people here. If his plane show fall into the sea or his ship sink beneath the waves of the ocean, if he should catch a mortal fever, if his automobile should be struck by a train, such is my superstition that I would blame the ill will felt by people here. Gentlemen, that ill will, that bad luck, I could never forgive. But aside from that let me swear by the souls of my grandchildren that I will never break the peace we have made. After all, are we or are we not better men than those pezzonovanti who have killed countless millions of men in our lifetimes?”
regarding Mediterranean women's apparel:..... Interesting, only women I saw wearing skirts in Europe where I spent time (Italy) were nuns, especially in.
Even when Pope Benedict XVI celebrated his first Christmas midnight mass in St Perter's cathedral, the only women I saw wearing skirts there then were nuns. I imagine it might be kind of difficult for Italian women though to be cruising around on their favorite means of transportation (motor scooters) wearing skirts I suppose....
People on here have been critical of the dress design Monica is wearing. I think the opposite. I like clean refreshing flowers and light colors...there is a coolness to them...
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It is beginning to feel like the USA Autumn 1962
I think there was nothing secret about the missiles having nuclear warheads aimed at Russia in Turkey at that time.