{"id":125964,"date":"2022-03-11T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=125964"},"modified":"2022-03-11T12:01:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T12:01:20","slug":"putin-wants-ukraine-and-if-we-do-nothing-to-stop-him-our-world-will-never-be-the-same","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/putin-wants-ukraine-and-if-we-do-nothing-to-stop-him-our-world-will-never-be-the-same\/","title":{"rendered":"Putin wants Ukraine and if we do nothing to stop him our world will never be the same"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Former US ambassador to NATO warns about Putin’s ‘false-flag operations’ on use of biological, chemical weapons<\/h4>\n

Former U.S. ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker joined ‘America’s Newsroom’ to discuss the likelihood of Putin using biological and chemical weapons as the invasion into Ukraine continues.<\/p>\n

Doing nothing about the desecration of Ukraine by an international thug is still doing something, much like turning away as someone beats up your neighbor down the street. True, if I rush to rescue him there are risks to me.  However, it\u2019s not enough to just yell harsh words at the criminal and then declare, “I\u2019ve done everything possible.” That\u2019s cowardice and inhuman, not a reflection of the America many of us know and love.<\/p>\n

There is a better way but it takes moxie that President Joe Biden probably lacks. Real leaders take risks and stand-up against bullies like Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin. <\/p>\n

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What\u2019s not in question is that our president has the support of some Americans who insist that the Ukraine war isn\u2019t our fight. I hear their angry protests, “Let the Europeans fight Putin. It\u2019s not worth American blood and treasure.” <\/p>\n

The same sort of comments were heard before each of the First and Second World Wars by the same kind of people, the elites. They smugly tell us to ignore live television images of more than a million frightened Ukrainians fleeing war, bleeding in the streets and smoke billowing from apartment buildings and hospitals bombed by Putin\u2019s forces.<\/p>\n

These scenes are now too familiar because this is the harsh reality of Russian tyranny.  In 2016, Russian forces carried out a massive bombardment of Aleppo, Syria in support of their ally in Damascus. <\/p>\n

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\n FILE \u2013 Russian President Vladimir Putin.
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A native of Aleppo, who viewed Putin\u2019s missile attacks on Ukrainian cities to Al Jazeera, said, “He [Putin] is going to go full Aleppo on Ukraine. \u2026 It\u2019s crazy that what we experienced a few years ago is being replayed almost frame by frame in Ukraine.”<\/p>\n

Similar brutality was evidenced against the Chechens. In 1999, Russia\u2019s air force bombed the Chechen capital of Grozny in response to Putin\u2019s order to destroy the city. Soon, Grozny laid in waste, tens-of-thousands dead and in Putin\u2019s words, his troops “fulfilled their task to the end.” <\/p>\n

Juxtapose the scenes in Aleppo and Grozny with what happened in the Balkans. In 1999, the western allies, led by the US, responded to the mass atrocities committed in Kosovo by Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and did so under the doctrine of the “right to humanitarian intervention.” At the time, the US and its allies provided a no-fly zone over Kosovo until the killing stopped and then put troops on the ground to ensure civilian safety.  Most informed observers of that war confirm that the west\u2019s intervention saved Kosovo and many thousands of lives.<\/p>\n

The international community has long wrestled with what to do with the issue of humanitarian crises like Kosovo, whether they are the result of internal conflict or created by outside forces like the Russian invasion of Ukraine.   <\/p>\n