Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered hundreds of his army forces into Ukraine final week.
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The Difficulty: Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine after Vladimir Putin despatched in a “army operation” final week.
As a pupil of historical past, it's scary to see the Nineteen Thirties play out within the 2022 (“Bloody hell,” Feb. 25).
The nations of the West, particularly the USA, introduced prematurely that they wouldn’t intervene with a Russian invasion.
Threatening financial sanctions may fit effectively on small international locations over a time period, however not on a strong, well-prepared nation led by a brutal dictator.
It hasn’t stopped Iran, North Korea or any of the opposite sanctioned international locations from nefarious pursuits. There are at all times international locations who break sanctions.
Solely power, sadly, will cease folks like Russian President Vladimir Putin. Both you must bodily take away him from energy or the scene or you must confront the aggressor.
There is no such thing as a ambiguity as to the intentions and targets of this aggressor. He, like his hero Joseph Stalin and Adolf Hitler have said their targets. We ignored him at our peril. There may be nonetheless time if we intervene now.
Samuel Mark
West Hempstead
The West must hit Russia the place it hurts: the oligarchs.
President Biden’s sanctions, whereas aggressive, don’t do sufficient to punish these energy brokers.
The oligarchs hold most of their huge fortunes in offshore financial institution accounts, multimillion-dollar properties, large artwork collections and yachts.
The oligarchs have a symbiotic relationship with the Kremlin, and that has labored effectively for them up to now, permitting these folks to amass billions of dollars.
If these oligarchs have been to lose most of their overseas property, they might put large quantities of strain on the Kremlin to cease the invasion. This strain could be sufficient to finish the incursion.
Alex Slen
Clayton, Mo.
My coronary heart goes out to the Ukrainian folks. It's a shame that their troopers and residents are dying by the hands of this Twenty first-century Hitler.
What number of extra will die earlier than “sanctions” produce outcomes?
Dennis Zielinski
Lyndhurst, NJ
China and Russia are discovering their pursuits lining up very effectively.
They'll keep out of one another’s manner. Iran will gravitate into their camp.
The Ukrainian invasion will show the primary arduous frost in an oncoming authoritarian winter.
Zephyr Dorsey
Iowa Metropolis
Right here’s a manner we will punish Putin and make this a victory: Invite Sweden and Finland into NATO. They've proven curiosity if Ukraine was invaded.
Additional, we should deal with the struggle in Ukraine as winnable. Even when cities fall, the nation is big and the inhabitants courageous.
Flip Ukraine into Putin’s “Spanish ulcer” — the infinite Iberian struggle that helped defeat Napoleon. You don’t win a struggle except you suppose you may win — and act accordingly.
Sadly we don’t see any such dedication or imaginative and prescient from Biden. He's passive and uninspiring.
We want a Winston Churchill, not a Neville Chamberlain.
David James Trapp
Forest Grove, Ore.
In a world during which the phrase “hero” is usually misused, we're seeing real heroes in motion as Putin’s mindless slaughter is within the strategy of destroying Ukraine.
The folks of Ukraine and protesters in Russia are boldly and bravely standing as much as Putin. Each teams know full effectively that they threat arrest, harm and loss of life for his or her braveness.
The world is watching the destruction and distress being needlessly inflicted, and there aren't any efficient choices to cease it, wanting going to struggle with Russia — one thing we should not and won't do. Putin’s army escapade is a lose-lose proposition.
Oren Spiegler
Peters Township, Pa.
If the entire world doesn't get collectively and cease this madman, it will likely be 1939 once more.
He who doesn't study from his errors will repeat them.
Matthew Galcik
Montauk
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