"Pres Putin did an unprovoked invasion of a sovereign Ukraine.
And, now your current alias seems to want to blame that unprovoked invasion by Pres Putin of a sovereign Ukraine upon Europeans?
Wow... Lamplighter."

Firstly, Putin is on par with Stalin, or worse. No good for his own country or the larger world.

Secondly, NATO's (read rent-seeking-hatchet-wiedling adults) attempted expansion to include Ukraine was, and is, a historical assault on the integrity of Russia. A cold-blood pre-meditated act.

And so, dear Lamplighter, I encourage you to witness the deaths of both Ukranian and Russian young men at the front of war. I encourage you to temper your words and dialog with cold-blooded death of youthful males on both sides.

From the perspective of a US enlisted veteran who later read "All Quiet on the Eastern Front" and "War is a Racket" by Smedly Butler, I encourage you to better understand Eisenhower's warning about the military-industrial-complex that George Washington also warned about in his farewell letter to the American people.

This is to say, it is one thing to be knowledgeable before an audience of the uneducated, and another before the audience of those who have seen first-hand the horrors or war.

This is to say, those who have witnessed the horrors of war, brought upon the world by enablers of Lamplighter, have more to teach than the enablers can relate.

Globalization or no globalization, there is no isolationism.

In the history of the nation-state world, it is always globalists in nation A who obtain an unfair advantage in nation A while globalist partners in nation B also obtain an unfair advantage in their own nation B, and so-on.

The simple fact of the matter is that globalization is a jobs program for people, typically upper-crust, who like to travel (and otherwise the travel industrial complex). Globalization does provide poor people the opportunity to travel, albeit in a military uniform.

Long before a US leader abandons a foreign leader, he's already abandoned natives and lower-crust people in his home country.

Back to high school name-calling and consuming cheap foreign goods, until the next economic collapse or war anyway.

"The impacted workers include personnel hired for FAA radar, landing and navigational aid maintenance, one air traffic controller told The Associated Press. The air traffic controller was not authorized to talk to the media and spoke on condition of anonymity."

An insider's perspective. If, and only if the people released were involved in maintenance activities, then the public should be less concerned.

Withstanding the shortage of actual controllers, the public would be outraged if they saw the cake jobs that FAA maintenance-types enjoy. I slightly exaggerate, but imagine a person spending a week to perform a 1 day job, atop which the govt pays hotel, per diem, etc for 4 extra days. FAA is a good ol' boys club with much bloat and too-few actual controllers.