On February 1 I posted on  WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT UKRAINE?   To quote: There is too much history linked to Ukraine that the thought of their joining the European Union deeply agitates Vladimir Putin. There all kinds of reason why Putin is focused on Ukraine.  Here is one that probably makes the most sense. The current issue of  TIME  magazine has a rather lengthy article by Simon Shuster with a sub-theme,  GREAT WARS SOMETIMES START OVER SMALL OFFENSES .  I can't link you to it because you're not a subscriber.  World War I, for example, was triggered when Austrian archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated. The story begins in 2004 when Daria Medvedchuk was born in Ukraine.  Her father, Victor, asked a close friend, Vladimir Putin, to christen her in the Orthodox tradition they shared.  The families are close, for they holiday together on the Black Sea and conduct business on the side. About  Viktor Medvedchuk:   Previously in 1...