I confess, I have no special
knowledge to say anything about a foreign war.
But I have a need to express what I think. This essay assumes that Putin and Russia are the bad guys and that Zelenskyy and Ukraine are the good guys. Putin and much of Russia would disagree.
Putin and Mother Russia are
waging a war of destruction on Ukraine, a sovereign nation. It is lovely how united the rest of the world
has become with economic sanctions. But,
even putting war casualties aside, Putin’s actions have already cost tens if
not hundreds of trillions of dollars of physical damage in Ukraine that will
not be paid back even if Putin comes to his senses and ends his war of
aggression. And what reason have we to
assume that Ukraine is all that Putin wants?
Agreed that NATO may be a threat to Russia, even if NATO has shown no
aggressive intentions on Russia, it is understandable that Russia may feel more
threatened with Ukraine joining NATO. But
“we can destroy you and your country; and the rest of the world had better not
help out or we will unleash what you cannot imagine on you” cannot lead
anywhere good. And maybe economic
sanctions are only chips in a high-stakes poker game.