I knew the inevitability of the conflict and warned about it in the article that was published in the May issue of the “New Times” magazine in 1990. At that moment “The Clash of Civilizations” was still in the making, but I am sure that we would have found many similarities with Samuel Huntington who saw the fault-lines dividing Ukraine as the casus belli of the future “clash”. Still, my wife and I came over from Yelabuga (Russia) to settle in Zaporozhye because our parents were getting old and might need our assistance. 

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

The first five chapters of this book were ready in Zaporozhye (Ukraine). The chapters about the expansion of NATO and the Monroe Doctrine were finished in Przemyśl and Warsaw (Poland) on the long way to Canada where I came with my wife on November 6, 2022.  Thus, most chapters appeared in the neck of the woods of Queensville (East Gwillimbury) – an hour’s drive to the downtown of Toronto.