The excerpt is from the article at the Web address added to this page.
Isn't it possible that lack of weapons shipments would only embolden Putin even further?
I think that people who are making every effort at defense against an inappropriate and much larger aggressor should not be left to spin their wheels, losing time, money, energy.
What is Mr. Putin going to do? Blow up the United States? Blow up Europe? What would be the sense of doing that? Isn't his threat essentially to give him what he wants or he'll send the world to hell? Why should someone with that attitude be allowed to dictate to a waiter, let alone to the world?
The Russian government is resentfully slowing its planned takeover of Ukraine. I'm sure that it considers the ceasefire a pause, that it won't want to agree to returning the places it has annexed and invaded, and that it has more illegal votes and invasions written on its schedule in pen, not pencil. Everything about its past behavior and its contemporary rhetoric declares what its future behavior will be.
I think that the Russian government should be sent the message that it needs to remove takeovers of other countries for the purposes of establishing the former Soviet Union and pursuing world domination from its foreign policy. That message should be sent in a way that the Russian government will take seriously.
This is the Web address of an article that shows the contempt that the Russian government has for the West, and that it considers its former land possessions to be loans it was forced to make in the past; debts which it plans to call in, with high interest.
Copyright, with noted exceptions, L. Kochman, September 22, 2014 @ 6:43 p.m./edited @ 6:48 p.m.
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