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I, as an immigrant to this country, think that this country is the greatest country on Earth, as I know do you. I would never apologize for America. America is the light to the world. We have freedoms and opportunities here that people dream about abroad.
Russia argued that NATO’s intervention in Libya had been just another American “regime change” operation under the guise of humanitarian protection, and that this time countries shouldn’t be fooled about what would happen in Syria.
A few days later, as I walked my kids back from a playground near the UN, several Ukrainians came over to thank me for exposing Russia’s lies. One distraught elderly woman said, “We were afraid we would be alone.” Afterward, Declan asked me what the women were so upset about, so I told him about Putin, searching for terms a five-year-old could understand. “It’s like someone entering our apartment, taking two of your favorite stuffed animals from your toy corner, and then saying they used to belong to him,” I explained. “How would that feel?”
There is no stability in genocide denial.”

