[NEWS] Five links from around the world: Montenegro, Donbas, Warmbier, IKEA in India, futures

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• This Open Democracy article examines how, exactly, Montenegro could start a Third World War. (It would need help from the Great Powers, for starters.)


• Politico Europe notes that wildlife seems to thrive on the depopulated front line in eastern Ukraine's Donbas.


• Doug Bock Clark writes at GQ about the sad story of Otto Warmbier, finding much evidence to confirm that he was not tortured but rather that he suffered a sadder fate.


• The New York Times takes a look at the first IKEA in India, still recognizably an IKEA but tailored to fit local conditions.


• Douglas Rushkoff writes at The Guardian about the blind alleys of nihilism and fear that at least some corporate futurists and transhumanists are racing into.