Ukraine and Guns and Mistrust

By Alan Hutchinson

Ukraine is following Yugoslavia and Syria. There are two essential priorities:
Trust your neighbours
Do not touch a gun.
No doubt there are bad things which have happened in Ukraine, and some bad things are no doubt still happening. They will not be stopped by more bad things. The two most dangerous things are guns and mistrust.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Alan Hutchinson
• Release date: May 22, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311693426

Alan Hutchinson

About mountains: when I was aged less than 10, as a family we all climbed The Old Man Of Coniston. The view from the top was still familiar the next time I saw it, decades later. Some five years later, the next notable climbing experience was in the Pyrenees when we camped in Andorra. Nothing much happened after that for fifteen years or so, when the experiences described in the MEWILA book began.About science: again, before the age of 10, my father taught me how to build a radio. Later, he showed me books on cosmology. My student summer jobs included two with zoologists, one with computing people, and one with weather forecasters. That is not obviously why I studied mathematics.About human character: some background in this subject can be very useful, if one wants to survive long enough in employment to collect a pension.About riding bicycles: it is a good experience, and a good way to travel.

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Ukraine and Guns and Mistrust

Alan Hutchinson

Smashwords edition 10 April 2015

Copyright © Alan Hutchinson 2014, 2015

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Contents

Yugoslavia

Syria

Ukraine

Postscript: Yugoslavia

Postscript: Syria

Postscript: Ukraine

PPS: Ukraine

PPPS: Maynard Keynes at Versailles, and Jeffrey Sachs at Moscow

PPPS: Ukraine

PPPPS: Syria

Ukraine is following Yugoslavia and Syria. There are two essential priorities:

Trust your neighbours

Do not touch a gun.

No doubt there are bad things which have happened in Ukraine, and some bad things are no doubt still happening. They will not be stopped by more bad things. The two most dangerous things are guns and mistrust.

Yugoslavia

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