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TomSlick

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9. It's not our war as a matter of choice.

Tue Apr 12, 2022, 10:20 PM

Apr 2022

Putin's choice was to invade an nonthreatening democratic neighbor. It was Putin's choice to intentionally target civilians. It was Putin's choice to destroy the Ukrainian civilian infrastructure. It was Putin's choice to kill multiple Ukrainians - old people, women, and children - in an attempt to terrorize the Ukrainians into capitulation. It was Putin's choice to move from one atrocity to the next.

It is the choice of NATO and the US to not stand up to Putin but to fight the Russians to the last Ukrainian. It is the choice of NATO to prove to Putin that NATO is a hollow vessel that is unlikely to resist if Putin invades Poland or the Baltic States.

The choices made by NATO and the US will have repercussions beyond Ukrainian deaths.

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"Ukrainians are dying to defend democracy so Americans and other Europeans don't have to do so." [View all] highplainsdem Apr 2022 OP

No it's not this country's war. David__77 Apr 2022 #1

Oh, yes it is ! HUAJIAO Apr 2022 #3

If so in a sense then that's been the case for years and years. David__77 Apr 2022 #4

Russia has attacked 'the West." But Ukraine IS in fact doing all the fighting. HUAJIAO Apr 2022 #6

This - and not willing to send JustAnotherGen Apr 2022 #7

There's not much of a Lincoln Brigade around this time. Bucky Apr 2022 #5

It's not our war as a matter of choice. TomSlick Apr 2022 #9

Very well put. HUAJIAO Apr 2022 #2

We won't defend our own democracy, apparently, unless the assault is as obvious as bombs... Silent3 Apr 2022 #8