Yeah, that’s why learning history and having a bigger global and historical context is so important, it just opens your worldview up so far beyond the basic liberal narrow worldview.

Yeah, that’s precisely it! I feel material conditions showing liberalism’s failures are a big part of this move towards apologetics/attempted salvations of liberalism, and as those too crumble we have a good opportunity to educate people we should take advantage of.

I’ve heard of dividing borders on ethnicity but basing them on continental divides is a new one for me. Would you say all of Russia east of the Urals belongs to mongolia or something?