We can either muster a stronger response to Russia’s genocidal war to 'erase' Ukraine, or we can witness further erosion of American power and American-democratic ideals, writes AnneRPierce.
Defying the odds, heroic Ukraine could conceivably draw Russia into a stalemate and, with enough military aid, “win” this war. Russia’s failure to capture Kyiv and the ground it has lost in Kharkiv have given Western onlookers hope, and an excuse not to do more.
One cannot look at the massacre, torture, rape, and mass displacement of civilians; the carpet-bombing and starvation sieges of cities and towns; the targeting of apartments, schools, hospitals, evacuation centers, oil depots, and infrastructure; the destruction and pillage of cultural treasures; the appropriation of farms and blockade of Black Sea ports that send Ukrainian wheat to the world; and, perhaps most horrifying of all, the “disappearances” of innocents, including children, and with...
Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba recently noted that if Ukraine had received the weapons it requested earlier, the situation would be “much different ... much better.” In a May 3 interview with the Wall Street Journal, Zelensky lamented that much promised military aid had “not yet arrived” and that some have “promised aid but have not sent it.” Indeed, the Polish offer to send MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine is stalled, and the provision of heavy weaponry is inadequate due to U.S.
With a stalemate between Russian and Ukrainian forces now possible, some prominent Europeans and Americans are urging Ukraine toward an armistice that involves territorial concessions. But that would allow Russia to keep pursuing expansionist goals and would set the stage for Russia’s next military incursion.
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