What new insights do you think kingsolver wants her readers to have about the divorce process

In “Stone Soup” Barbara Kingsolver gives her opinion against people who only see "standard" families as the correct ones. For Kingsolver, there is an excessive criticism for divorce. She is against the belif that divorce is destroying the concept of the "ideal family". The same happens with single parents, homosexual couples and other practices. She says that all these families should be considered as equals in society.

the answer is: the start of world war i, and russia’s hopes of benefiting from it

during world war i russian joined due to in their current crisis they were being supported by france and the war was already declared to them by germany, they needed to maintain their political goal and leadership role in the balkans, and is the same feeling that this excerpt evoke the eager of maintain the land value.