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The clash of civilisations, would, Huntington suggested, be acted out most violently on the boundaries between them. "Conflict along the fault line between Western and Islamic civilizations has been going on for 1,300 years," he noted, predicting that it would become "more virulent". But Islam's problems would not just be with the West. "Violence also occurs between Muslims, on the one hand, and Orthodox Serbs in the Balkans, Jews in Israel, Hindus in India, Buddhists in Burma and Catholics in the Philippines," he wrote. "Islam has bloody borders.""<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170205101213/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/3999461/Samuel-Huntington.html Samuel P. Huntington - Obituary], ''The Telegragh'', 2008</ref>}}
Huntington is often referred to as a civilizational historian and built upon the work pioneered by [[Oswald Spengler]] and [[Arnold J. Toynbee]]. Despite the criticism Huntington received in the early days of the War on Terror as his work fell out of use in academic circles, two decades after the book first appeared many began to view the work as prophetic.
==Ukraine==
Huntington wrote about [[Ukraine]] in 1996:
{{quotebox-float| the restraint of Russian and Ukrainian leaders prevented this issue from generating violence, and the election two months later of the pro-Russian [[Kuchma]] as Ukrainian president undermined the Crimean thrust for secession.
That election did, however, raise the possibility of the western part of the country seceding from a Ukraine that was drawing closer and closer to Russia. Some Russians might welcome this. As one Russian general put it, "Ukraine or rather [[Donbas|Eastern Ukraine]] will come back in five, ten or fifteen years. Western Ukraine can go to hell!" Such a rump Uniate and Western-oriented Ukraine, however, would only be viable if it had strong and effective Western support. Such support is, in turn, likely to be forthcoming only if relations between the West and Russia deteriorated seriously and came to resemble those of the Cold War.<ref>https://www.eurotrib.com/comments/2014/3/1/204/17909/65?mode=alone;showrate=1#65</ref>}}
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