Sorry, America, the War in Ukraine Is Our Fight | Opinion

It’s the bloodiest war Europe has seen in nearly 80 years. No one is sure how many people have been killed more than 100,000, probably not 300,000 (yet). It’s a huge number for a world that has been relatively peaceful for three-quarters of a century. Russia’s war in Ukraine accounts for the most war deaths in any single year since 1972. Russian President Vladimir Putin is turning back the tide of history.

People in the United States ask why the war in Ukraine is such a big deal, why America needs to involve itself. Why is the country sending billions of dollars in weapons and cash to help people so far away? Isn’t it dangerous to keep supplying more and more weapons, poking a Russian bear that has nuclear missiles for claws?

Yes, it’s dangerous, but it is also necessary.

Why? Because helping a fellow democracy in trouble at the hands of an evil authoritarian is the right thing to do. Helping your fellow man is the right thing to do. And if that’s not incentive enough, consider that it’s in our national interest.

via www.newsweek.com

This is a pretty lame piece, but he’s right. Ukraine is our fight, like it or not. Putin is acting out a strategy that includes overrunning Ukraine and then taking on Poland and the Baltic states. For him, it’s an existential move; he feels he has no choice. He’s trying to line up China behind him now and he’s preparing his population for a long war. He wants to neuter Germany, if they show any signs of fighting. We should move fast and pin Putin into a withdrawal and get security guarantees for Ukraine, Poland and the Baltics. Otherwise we’ll just have to fight him later when we will be able to afford to less. It’s an ugly situation and it probably does mean some form of WWIII. We just have to move decisively or we’ll really be in trouble. If we give the Ukrainians enough arms, fast enough, at least we won’t have to fight ourselves. Hopefully we can convince Putin to back down rather than unleash hell on the world and himself. But he’s not going to settle for any compromise peace settlement.