Russian President Vladimir Putin
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The Concern: Russian President Vladimir Putin’s continued invasion of Ukraine.
How is the world permitting this genocide to occur (“Conflict Prison,” March 3)? Russian President Vladimir Putin is committing crimes in opposition to humanity because the world watches.
NATO, together with the US, doesn’t wish to get actively concerned by sending troops or making a no-fly zone, in worry it might set off World Conflict III.
So the reply is permitting Russia to kill harmless ladies and kids, blow up stunning cities and destroy a sovereign nation?
Isn’t it empowering Putin to not name his bluff and stand as much as him as a result of he threatens escalation, like a schoolyard bully? What message is that this atrocity sending to China? The world should cease Putin instantly.
Claude Kasman
Nesconset
People worth and cherish their independence. We glorify our Revolutionary Conflict due to how our nation stood up in opposition to the may of a king and his military.
However we frequently neglect to recollect our nation may by no means have gained its freedom and independence if the French had stayed on the sidelines and never gotten concerned within the combat.
Ukraine, like America in these occasions, is in a combat for survival within the face of a murderous dictator. People ought to contemplate whether or not now could be the time to pay it ahead and be part of within the combat for democracy.
Rick Baker
Dallas, Texas
As an evil authorities invades Ukraine and murders harmless folks, together with youngsters, the remainder of the world is simply too afraid to return to the help of Ukraine due to worry of a nuclear warfare.
Nuclear weapons had been imagined to be a deterrent to warfare, and now they're deterring the world from aiding Ukraine.
There's a time after we should act to do what is true, not what's best. Braveness is energy within the face of ache or grief. We're displaying no braveness now, leaving Ukraine to defend itself alone.
Putin both thinks we gained’t act or that we're weaker than Russia, and there might be no stopping an evil dictator who thinks he can act with impunity. We should do what is true, no matter how troublesome it might be.
Steve Preziosa
Deptford, NJ.
From my perspective, NATO could have been a good suggestion after World Conflict II, however it has accomplished little to defend the harmless who're being slaughtered by Putin.
I listened to President Biden use nearly each excuse within the guide when it got here to preventing Russia, so we're left to observe the ladies and kids who might be killed by the hundreds, all as a result of the Ukraine will not be a member of the boys’ membership.
Everybody who had intelligence that Putin would assault Ukraine ought to have put in place weapons and battle plans to discourage him.
That 40-mile lengthy Russian army convoy that sat for 2 days on open roads would have been an ideal goal for air strikes — if solely Ukraine had the air energy to behave.
Gregory J. Topliff
Warrenville, SC
Putin positive looks like both a madman or an fool. Possibly each.
He's attempting to overcome a rustic after having destroyed its infrastructure and its financial capability, thus leaving greater than 40 million ravenous folks on his palms and having to go away untold hundreds of his personnel there to protect it.
Precisely what rational objective can there be for this? None, he can’t win for dropping.
Martin Carus
Cliffside Park, NJ
If we proceed to normalize the shopping for of Russian oil, we're, actually, financially “fueling” Putin’s warfare machine.
This sounds all too just like the teachings realized from World Conflict II. Our nation dangers ceaselessly being stained as accomplices on this horrific assault on mankind.
No rationalization can place extra worth on power over treasured human lives.
America should instantly detach ourselves from this affiliation and reconcile our earlier errors. Historical past is not going to decide us kindly.
Ronald G. Frank
West Orange, NJ
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