Ukraine fights on, abandoned and alone, protecting the cowardly West from Putin

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1. I’m glad to see such a blunt headline.

   Zelenskyy was (allegedly) criticized by Biden for not being grateful enough and it seemed to me at the time that gratitude should be flowing in the other direction. It still does.

2. The West need to get its act together. What countries will look tempting to Putin next?

3. self preservation is not the same as protecting the west.

4. Much of Europe has stepped up to fill the loss of the US, that’s now Puti’s bltch.

5. > Why, then, is there no serious effort by Prime Minister Starmer and the “coalition of willing” European states to impose protected airspace over key civilian targets, at least over the winter? Putin understands strength and we know he exploits weakness. He knows our F-35 stealth fighters need not fear his long-range anti-air missiles: less sophisticated planes in US and Israeli service had no problems with Iran’s Russian-supplied defences.

   This needs to be done. It should have been done a long ago but better late than never.

   Sending British, Polish and Nordic fighter jets to assist in shooting down Russian cruise missiles is a risk worth taking. Russia has fought itself into a standstill against Ukraine alone. They have no capacity for more. They will screech like a stuck pig at direct intervention, but like USA in Vietnam, there is nothing they can actually do about it.

   We can either wring our hands and continue watch this genocide unfold, or we can use force, like this continent used to know how to use. Britain and the rest of the European superpowers didn’t become global empires by playing nice. Or by avoiding destroying their enemies when they were weak and vulnerable. Which Russia now is.

   Giving Ukraine the same airspace protection as Israel was given is a calculated risk, but destroying unmanned ordnance targeted at innocent civilians in the sovereign airspace of Ukraine is the most benign, minimal and easily justifiable intervention imaginable. If we want to even further minimize risk, the planes can be painted with Ukrainian insignia and be placed officially under the control of the Ukrainian MOD. But it’s neither here nor there, volunteer air squadrons have a long history from the Flying Tigers to the Swedish planes sent to assist Finland in the Winter War.

6. Our nuclear weapons protect us, not you. I’m pro Ukraine but this title isn’t going to win you any support. We don’t owe you anything.

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