THE WEST DESERVES TO FALL

The battle in Ukraine is not merely about Ukraine, any more than Russia's attack on Poland in 1939 was merely about Poland, or Russia's attack on Finland a month after the Russian slaughter in Poland was about Finland. I listen to Russia's threats (at least to how they are translated) stating that the West is risking serious repercussions if it continues to help Ukraine. I listen to cautious statements from the West that Ukraine should only use the weapons being sent to Ukraine as defensive weapons, and my stomach hurts so much I feel as if I am going to puke.

I've written on this before, but nothing has changed over the past two months, and the situation only worsens. Ukraine is running out of soldiers and time. Ukraine finally sank one of Russia's combatant Black Sea ships; but only one - not nearly enough to make a difference or deter Russia in any meaningful way. Ukraine hasn't yet blown the Crimea Bridge, and taken out Kherson Airport and forced their way into Mariupol from the North, halting completion of the land bridge from Donbass to Crimea. Ukraine hasn't yet blown Russian military depots in Russia. They haven't blown Russia's energy production facilities or their energy exporting lines that head East and West. The day after the 'Japs' bombed Pearl Harbor, after the unsuccessful sanctions and embargos placed upon Japan, CINCPAC Navy committed all US submarines to unrestricted warfare Against all Japanese shipping, wherever it was found. Four months after Pearl Harbor, in a mostly symbolic attack, the US bombed Tokyo. It let the Japanese know that while the US Military was at a temporary disadvantage, regardless of how ill prepared the US was, America would seek and attack every possible Japanese target they could reach - especially Japan itself. It took 2 1/2 years to reach Japan again, simply because our Russian ally wouldn't let us fly from Eastern Russia - all the while Russia was being saved form starvation and military destruction by torturous deadly convoys to Murmansk.

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I find it incredulous (well not really, considering who is in control of the US and the West) that Russia's nuclear threats weren't responded to with a succinct statement, "Any use of nuclear weapons by Russia will bring about an immediate, unlimited nuclear response, which will leave Russia totally annihilated; and, if this means that it will result in mutual destruction, the blame will be left to God to place. As a free society we will not live under threats to our lives and our liberty. We have used our nuclear weapons against tyrants once before, and are prepared to use them once again." It is obvious to all thinking people that a continuation of the present response to Russian aggression will inevitably lead to a much larger war. While Ukraine is not our fight - aggression by the new international bloc of nations is our fight, and it might as well be fought as quickly and as fully as possible, beginning in Ukraine - just as WW2 should have been fought in Manchuria, in Ethiopia, in Spain, in China, in Czechoslovakia and in Finland. Admonishing Ukraine not to attack Russia on Russia's home turf while Russia is destroying Ukraine hour by hour, is about as asinine as anything I have ever heard in my life.