The first shot of the Ukrainian War was fired in 1775 and heard around the world almost simultaneously with Brexit’s earliest intimations then appearing over the horizon. The fusillade and the portent of rebellious Massachusetts exacerbated a multiplicity of antecedent factors unleashing parallel processes of imperial disintegration and proliferation of nation-states that over two and a half centuries reordered the exercise of international power and authority under the dominant doctrinal allegiance not of communism, anarchism, syndicalism, democracy, capitalism, socialism, liberalism, nihilism, terrorism, theocratic utopianism or any other less or more ephemeral creed or ideology, but of nationalism, strengthened, multiplied and…