A Few Thoughts on Borders

In Western Europe our border disputes are relatively tame. They include a centuries-long hateful occupation of part of Ireland and a part of Spain that was never ever any form of independent state yet is still trying to will itself into existence in revenge for being crushed (thank God) by the Nationalists in 1938.

In Eastern Europe border disputes aren’t dead. They aren’t even past. While I’ve spent a good deal of…