[Terry L Smith]

I agree with the author’s assessment. Though not in his class of echelon, we share that opportunity to the minds of the people known as ‘those Russians’.

I worked with Russian political refugees. I learned and had validated many things I had heard from the ‘50’s on. In my high school years, my classmates were 1st generation born Ukrainian Americans.

I think the author missed a time worth mrntioning. The Czechs in the ‘60’s. Yes, our hands were full of Vietnamese mud, and again, we did naught.

[rod5591]

Note to Biden: Ukraine used to be part of the Soviet Union and has a huge Russian population. Ukraine-Russian relations is a matter of zero national interest to the USA. Therefore, USA should keep its nose out of an affair that is on the other side of the world. Here that, hawk-breath?

[Navy Patriot]

Emmett Tyrrell: "Under President Gorbachev's successor, Boris Yeltsin, my anti-Soviet ardor dissipated even more. In fact, President George H.W. Bush even invited me to the White House to participate at a dinner in Yeltsin's honor. I came not in an armored vehicle but in a taxi. I found Yeltsin very engaging. As I recalled, some months before, he had hopped down from a military tank in Moscow to rally the forces of the Russian Federation. Henry Kissinger called Yeltsin a great man. Who was I to dissent?"

There's your problem, Emmett, while you "hate" Russian Communists, you can't figure out that Western Liberal Marxists, Assistant Democrats and RINOs are far worse, more Communistic and far more dangerous than those mean Russians who are MUCH farther FROM your hated Communism, (and Fascism, too).

[Kazan]

Russian President Vladimir Putin is irritated by the citizens of disobedient Ukraine

The people in Crimea and Donbas are irritated by a government that formed illegal via revolution and no longer wish to be part of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government trying to force them to remain part of Ukraine is the issue.

Putin wasn't going to allow his country to be denied access to the Black Sea because of revolution we helped foment. No Russian leader would allow that. It's a national security issue for the Russians.

[tlozo]

Its not just about Ukraine, Putin is demanding NATO never admit Finland and Sweden. Also, Putin has demanded NATO withdraw all forces from countries that entered NATO after 1997: Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.