A Russian leader who makes publicly clear that he believes an independent democracy like Ukraine has no right to exist is a danger to Europe and the United States, writes columnist trudyrubin.
gas pipeline from Russia. But these moves won’t stop Putin, who is obsessed with restoring his warped vision of Russian greatness.network for international financial transfers. Now is also the time for Americans to grasp the magnitude of the big lies Putin is trying to peddle to his own people — and to the world.
The result was that Russian troops and their local proxies occupied a third of the Donbas region for the past eight years, killing nearly 15,000 Ukrainian soldiers and civilians. Putin’s military move also puts him in position to move thousands of soldiers further into Ukraine under the transparent fiction that they are “peacekeepers.” Think how much cynicism it takes to attach such a label to military forces whose mission is to terrorize and kill innocent civilians.
Hopefully, the Biden team understands there is no prospect for negotiations in the midst of an invasion. Even if Ukraine declared tomorrow that it would never join NATO, Putin would not be dissuaded from his goal. His speech made clear he wants much more: first Ukraine’s demise, and then the withdrawal of NATO forces from all Eastern European countries that joined the alliance after 1997.
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