Editorial
I hope my followers won't mind a bit of editorializing on my part. It concerns the weakening of resolve in Congress to support the Ukrainians.
It is my opinion that--and I rarely quote LBJ--"aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed". I believe that anytime we allow a bully to succeed, we encourage that malefactor. It was our ignoring the takeover of the Crimea, Georgia and eastern Ukraine that allowed the invasion to take place..
In the 1930s if we had stood up to Hitler and the Nazis at the Rhineland, or the Sudetenland or the Anschluss, WWII would have involved much less carnage and many Jews, Gypsies and gay people would have been saved.
Many Americans wanted us to stay out of it, calling it a European problem. But if Hitler had been able to conquer the Soviet Union and western Europe, he would have come after us next. We would have been fighting the Germans on our east coast and the Japanese on our west coast.
An ignored depredation threatens us all eventually, I believe.
It is my opinion that--and I rarely quote LBJ--"aggression unchallenged is aggression unleashed". I believe that anytime we allow a bully to succeed, we encourage that malefactor. It was our ignoring the takeover of the Crimea, Georgia and eastern Ukraine that allowed the invasion to take place..
In the 1930s if we had stood up to Hitler and the Nazis at the Rhineland, or the Sudetenland or the Anschluss, WWII would have involved much less carnage and many Jews, Gypsies and gay people would have been saved.
Many Americans wanted us to stay out of it, calling it a European problem. But if Hitler had been able to conquer the Soviet Union and western Europe, he would have come after us next. We would have been fighting the Germans on our east coast and the Japanese on our west coast.
An ignored depredation threatens us all eventually, I believe.
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