From what I have heard from people inside Ukraine and Donesk there is a desperate ‘nastiness’ that the West is choosing to ignore. The ‘alt-right’ (aka Nazi) contingent is an official component of the current Ukrainian government, and there is at least one Nazi battalion in the military, and reportedly on the police force as well. In the East, a bloody and continuous civil war is raging and there is no sign of peace that I have heard of. So while others may argue about whether the US and Russia will come to blows over Ukraine, others are already fighting and dying. The deep history of the region, as illuminated below, makes this more than a ‘complication.’