RE BLUNDERING IN THE ORTHODOX WORLD

The US is a much bigger blunderer, over there, than, say, the Austro Hungarian Empire had been.

It was, after all, the assassination of the Arch Duke that precipitated WW I, so called.

WWI was started by the Catholic Austrians, and their rebelling Orthodox Serbs, against the Orthodox Russians, in the first instance, contrary to what almost all Americans believe, that it was started by the largely Protestant Germans.

As I recall, the fault line between Western and Eastern Europe runs down the middle of Ukraine: