If Ukrainians give up, or if we give up on Ukraine... It's Russia making war in the future. It's Russia making war with Ukrainian technology, Ukrainian soldiers from a different geographical position. At that point, we're in 1939. We're in 1938 now. In effect, what Ukrainians are letting us do is extend 1938.
In April, President Biden signed a$95 billion foreign aid bill. $61 billion of it went to aid Ukraine.
I cannot with all sincerity not wish the United States to plunge into a new civil war as quickly as possible.
Putin, Kim, Xi, and other present and aspiring despots want Western democracies to fall, and they're lining up hoping this fall's US election goes the way they want with the election of a fellow autocrat -- the convicted felon and adjudicated rapist.
As long as we remain a member of NATO, the United States will continue to function as the military ATM of European countries at the expense of our own citizens, putting our own national security and our economy at risk.
But the fear of NATO encroaching closer to Russia's borders is a ruse. While that has been a convenient defense of Russia's aggression against its neighbors, Vladimir Putin himself has admitted his objectives are tore-unify the kingdom of Peter the Great.
When Russia invaded its neighbour on 24 February, Putin falsely claimed it was a "special operation" limited to the eastern Donbas region to "de-Nazify" Ukraine and reduce the supposed threat to Russia. But even as he was uttering those words, his troops were moving on Kyiv and bombing land even further west. More than 100 days later, a fifth of Ukrainian territory is under Russian military control, with puppet administrations who talk of referenda on joining Russia. And now Putin feels bold enough to admit that his "operation" is in fact an occupation.
Putin claims Ukraine rightfully belongs to him and "there would be no peace until Russia achieves its goals".
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