I was called a warmonger in 2014 when I said Putin would not stop with Crimea & E Ukraine. Now everyone admits that I was right, but wants to repeat the same mistake now. Letting Putin destroy Ukraine *increases* the threat of a greater conflict, including nuclear.
Putin is bombing hospitals, refuges, and retirement homes in Ukraine. But we are told that the free world must not act to help unless those hospitals, refuges, and retirement homes are inside specific lines on the map. Those lives matter. Those children matter.
This isn't about NATO. There's no treaty saying the US & other great powers of the free world are forbidden from defending Ukraine, which is dying to protect them. There is only fear, the same fear that kept them from acting in 2014 and led us here.
The Biden WH & its media defenders are repeating the arguments of the Obama admin & its media defenders in 2014. Heroic restraint! Such leadership! You are too hot-headed, Grandmaster Kasparov, let's just wait and see! We waited. We see. npr.org/2022/03/18/108…
As soon as the first Russian tank crossed the border of Ukraine, the West declared Putin the ruler of the largest country in Europe. No longer sovereign, no longer allowed to invite allies to fight in its own territory in its defense. Only Putin can do that.
The US & EU want to go back to their comfortable corruption, buying Russian oil & gas, applying weak sanctions, lip service about democracy, inviting Putin to summits & Davos. Dictators always escalate & the West kept folding. But this time a problem: Ukraine refuses to fold.
The West loves to lose slowly, to pass the hard choices to the next admin, shift the consequences to buffer states. Now Ukraine has exposed them because Ukraine doesn't want to lose slowly, or lose at all. Ukraine wants to win. Help them win. fight4ukraine.org
Give jets, drones, & long-range weapons that allow Ukraine to strike at the source and protect their people, as @AVindman proposes. Announce the creation of humanitarian corridors in advance, areas under protection. Ukraine is not Putin's. Stop treating it like it is.
[Some tweets didn't thread correctly last night. Adding them now.]
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