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This is kind of a mini history lesson branching from my Cold War post. It relates to what's happening now actually. Why is Russia trying to get into Ukraine? A lot of this has to do with the Cold War.

A lot of people forget that we're not in an entirely new era. The Cold War is not ancient. The collapse of the Soviet Union happened in the 1990s. The fall of the Berlin wall happened in 1989. That's well within most of our parent's life times, and some of you guys were alive during this time. We are not living in the Informational Era. We're living in the Post-Cold War era.

Another thing most people forget is that Putin was a KGB officer who was stationed in Eastern Germany. He remembers te Cold War very well, I'm sure of it. So he might still see the European Union and NATO as enemies, and NATO was thinking about having Ukraine join them. Russia caught wind of this, and decided to do something very drastic about the situation and invade firstly the Crimea, and then Ukraine.

Now by no means was this supposed to be a detailed synopsis of what Ukraine is going through. This is supposed to remind you guys of two things:

1. We're living in the Post-Cold War era. Generations ahead of us will most likely see it as such, like how we see the 20s and 30s as the Post-World War I Era.

2. The Cold War is not ancient history. It was at max 25 years since the Soviet Union's decline. That's very fast for history. Think about it: it's been just 14 years since the turn of the century: 2000. You guys remember 2000? I'm sure some of you do. To quote John Green "The past seems distant even though it's near, and the future seems assured even though it isn't." that quote has some very real ideas with it. People in the 1920s thought they were living in a brand new era, when they were actually living in the aftermath of the world's first global involvement.