RadTrad Thomist

  Dr. Chojnowski: Why does it seem like July of 1914 or August of 1939? The world on the edge of world war and, yet, not really expecting anything major or catastrophic? We are in a similar situation on January 23, 2022 with the current crisis over the Ukraine. Ukraine, of course, never being a historic country itself, rather being part of the Russian or Austrian Empires or the Polish/Lithuanian Commonwealth. It became a "nation" for the first time during World World I and was quickly incorporated into the Soviet Communist State. It would remain in this condition until 1992 when it became again an independent "nation" with a huge number of ethnic Russians. These Russians were in "Ukraine" simply because they were put there by the Communist regime. Historically speaking, Ukrainian nationalism or a renewed sense of ethnic identity emerged in the Habsburg Empire that allowed these ethnic aspects to flower within its boundaries. I have known Ukrainian-American

Some interesting text from Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's book The  Intelligent  American's Guide to Europe (New Rochelle, NY: Arlington House Publishers, 1979), pp. 250-251. In this chapter, Kuehnelt-Leddihn indicates that there is "two other Slavic nations in the USSR [notice the date of publication], the White Ruthenians (also called Byelorussians) and the  Ukrainians (also called Ruthenians, Little Russians, South Russians, Black Russians). The White Ruthenians [White Russians] are found between the Great Russians and the Poles, and although the great majority belong to the Eastern Byzantine Church, they are subject to strong cultural influences from the Poles because before the [18th century Polish] partitions, they lived in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Their language, too, is halfway between Polish and Russian....However, the White Ruthenians do not present an explosive issue in the USSR.      This is not the case true of the Ukrainians, who first developed a str

https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/20/europe/pope-benedict-xvi-munich-abuse-report-catholic-church-intl/index.html

  https://novusordowatch.org/2022/01/vatican-preparing-decree-on-tlm-ecclesia-dei-institutes/

  https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/28/europe/poland-abortion-restrictions-law-intl-hnk/index.html Also, in 2022, a Maltese Center-Right politician, who has become president of the European Union Parliament, is being attacked for your opposition to abortion, even though the lady has been a big supporter of Sodomitic rights in the European Union. In secularist, post-Vatican II Europe, ANY vestige of the Catholic civilization and the Divine Order must be wiped out. https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/18/europe/roberta-metsola-european-parliament-election-intl/index.html