“ Russia persecutes evangelicals:”
Then we need to stop sending billions of dollars in financial and military aid to Russia. Oh wait, we’re not sending any aid to them - so your post is irrelevant. It would relevant if I wanted Biden to send your tax dollars to corrupt Russian offials, but I don’t
Meanwhile you support Biden sending my tax dollars sent to corrupt Ukrainian officials .
Ukraine ping
Meanwhile you support Biden sending my tax dollars sent to corrupt Ukrainian officials .]
While it would be better for all concerned if Russia hadn’t invaded Ukraine, its invasion does present an opportunity to degrade the Russian economy and the appetite of the Russian people and their rulers for foreign military conquests. Defeat in Afghanistan had a similar impact, such that Russian military adventures abroad ended for almost 2 decades - until its invasion of Georgia in 2008. The long-term effect of a defeat in Ukraine is likely to be more long-lasting, simply because it has been much more costly in men and equipment so far, and all in under a single year.
If defeat results in the dissolution of the Russian federation into dozens of independent states, that would be a salutary result. Ukraine will have done the world a great service by indirectly breaking up one of the last great despotic empires.
It would have been nice if Russia had become a free country that respected its neighbors’ borders and played nice with everyone. But perhaps a sprawling multi-ethnic empire like that can only be held together by brute force. So it is better that each of its components goes its own way, if that is the only way liberty can reign over each component of that sprawling land mass.