Clearly, as in so many situations, peaceful secession is the answer for Ukraine, and a sure preventive for civil war. The anti-Russian Catholic West, once part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, from the pro-Russian Orthodox East. The centralist politicos of all stripes, who love democracy because is means they can step on the minority, would object, but so what? All credit to my favorite foreign affairs writer Eric Margolis for raising the religious question, and for discussing the horrific suffering of Ukraine under FDR’s pal, Stalin. Of course, unlike the typical US reporter, Margolis actually knows something.