accepted 1 million refugees, most of them from syria. the russian involvement in syria was the kind of battle brings flapping that led to this populist moment, this buildup nationalists populists of regimes and governments. perhaps unintentionally created a new flood of right-wing politicians, either explicitly or implicitly aligned with putin in the kremlin themselves. from forest to orban, to trump. so we find ourselves here again though with the situation quite different in certain respects, and an interesting contrast. for many reasons, including, frankly, racism, anti-muslim bigotry, the paranoia of post 9/11 war on terror. many of those same countries which quite explicitly refused to accept refugees that russia created in syria are, to their credit, opening their borders and opening their arms to the refugees rushes creating in ukraine. just, today poland s right-wing paul prime minister along with