What’s happened to Ukranians is obviously something you know more about than I do. But I do know not our affair, and shouldn’t detract from our concern about what’s happening to our economy and the invasion of the US. We shouldn’t loan them money or defend them.
Bill Clinton obligated the United States to guarantee the territorial integrity of the Ukraine when he negotiated the 1994 agreement. That is a fact and an international agreement with the force of international law.
Putin’s plan is to pursue the Brezhnev Doctrine and then extend it to the Russian domination of all Europe. Putin’s dictatorial regime is already working on issuing Russian passports to Latvian citizens in yet another bid to invade and seize territories that are not in the current possession of Russia, just as Putin did with Georgia and the Ukraine. Kaliningrad is one of Putin’s prime targets for early conquest. Latvia and Lithuania are reporting extraordinary Russian military activities in Kaliningrad and nearby Russian borders consistent with creating a military capability to invade and seize some or all of the Baltic nations. Russian invasion and seizure of the Ukraine would threaten the flanks of the NATO defense of Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.