I am not an expert on such things, but it sounds right. If Russia truly wanted to stop fighting, I don't see how our Russia haters could have stopped that from happening unless Ukraine wanted to continue the war. I don't know if it was Putin's own idea to be greedy or those mysterious members of the Russian deep state.
But I keep thinking of what happened in 1944. After the US captured the Mariana Islands and Japan was in range of B-29s, Tojo told his diplomat to make peace. The diplomat replied that it is easier to start a war than to end it.
Ukraine can’t be abandoned, and not because of any silly-assed notions of democracy, but to avoid a world war.
In general I support providing defensive weapons. However, congress always ties that to pork here and in Ukraine, and policies that enslave us. I'll bet some of our congresscritters can't lift the bills they vote for. I can carry the Constitution in my pocket.
A lot of things to object to in the whole Ukraine issue and Brandon’s policy towards, but the right of every nation to be a nation without the leave of any autocrat with tanks and planes, or terrorists with suicide vests, is basic. It’s Declaration of Independence basic.
But Brandon is not the good guy here, any more than Putin is. They’re both playing games with human lives for nefarious purposes, and masking those purposes.