We’re willing yo take a few million Ukrainian refugees. We did so in March and will do it again.
Why?
Because these are women and children, this is Christian to do so.
Because the Ukrainians are fighting for their homes and loved ones against the invader.
Because we know that if Putin gets away with it today, he will come back for more.
Furthermore, irredentist claims would cause us fighting over every square inch as that hoch may have belonged at different times to different nations.
Same here. More Ukrainian mothers and children are coming here, after a summer when many adults went back.
Thing to remember is Russian mouthpieces in Russia keep going on Russian media to explain why they’re doing what they’re doing and why... But they can’t get their stories straight.
Recently they’ve settled on, creating an unsupportable wave of refugees into Europe, hoping that that the EU’ll either go bankrupt or just cave in and let Putin take any eastern European country he likes without getting in the way.
As for throttling the supply of natural resources, and turning the heating off, in support of that strategy. How original. They were doing the same thing 12 years ago. Before Maidan. Russia messing with Eastern Europe’s energy and gas supplies has been a thing since Putin put the top on his president-pm-president sandwich.
Of course us Freepers in Europe and the UK can’t expect American Freepers to know about that; it didn’t affect them at all and there were far bigger domestic issues to discuss.
It’s why the then Polish leader told Ukraine in 2008, what happens to Georgia is coming to Ukraine and the Baltic if Putin gets his way. And here we are. Conservatives in the UK pegged Poland as being far more in tune with reality on that topic than France and Germany.
Irredentism can’t be allowed to stand in the modern era. It’s why Thatcher fought the Falklands War to defend the legitimate population from Argentine chancers, why Bush Snr was right to do the same to the baathist chancers invading Kuwait, and it’s right to support Ukraine.