Recently, Senator McCain commented during a Sunday talk show that we might be seeing the beginning of a great unraveling of the world order put in place after World War II. But, if anything, it’s probably scaling back to that very world order he mentioned. The one where Russia and the U.S. are in a great game for the world. There again, times could be truly bad, and things could become progressively worse. Time will tell. European security, however, is still as important as ever. Ukraine remains threatened by a civil war as does European security.

Ukraine’s importance is a critical global situation. It is as important, in some ways, as Syria. The U.S. does not have a strong stance or policy towards Syria. The West is not active in Ukraine because it is consumed by Syria and the Middle East. Whether or not the U.S. and the West should intervene is an argument to be bad. But, sadly, an argument that has not been waged to a high degree.

Here’s a list of some of the events that have transpired in Kiev and Ukraine that took the people to a state of civil war.

– Protesters built overnight tents and laid out fuel in a ring to create a real ring of fire to keep security forces out.