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An article in the WSJ today told of Russian missiles hitting Ukraine and killing 25 people.
The missiles flew from inside Russia to find their victims.
The dead were probably sleeping, eating, making love.
But they were hit by missiles that Putin ordered fired.
Ukrainians lack the means of answering such attacks, to shoot back into Russia missiles that will kill Russians.
Why shouldn’t Ukrainians have such means?
Sometimes Ukraine’s antimissile batteries counter the incoming rockets, sometimes not.
Because they weren’t intercepted twenty five people died, said the article.
And I wondered, where is the moral outrage?
Twenty five people who Putin thought were not necessary in this world.
Twenty five fewer Ukrainians added to the thousands of dead whom Putin has considered essential to kill so he can feel secure.
So Russians can sleep well at night, untroubled by the specter of a sudden overnight attack by NATO forces bent on destroying the essence of Russia.
But there has never been such a threat. Putin chose to plant such notion in Russians’ minds and they have believed it.
Why can’t you spell out this fallacy, again and again, Mr Biden, for the world to hear?
Russia along with China are now part of the UN’s security council where they hold veto power. What a toothless institution.
The West cannot lose this war and you know it.
This is not Afghanistan.
Ukraine must not surrender any of its territory…
