If we do not stop Putin now, then when?
If we won't act for fear of nuclear retaliation now, then we will remain forever paralyzed.
While it's good the US and others are sending more military supplies to the Ukraine, they all still refuse to take military action.
The reason is apparently ONLY the fear that doing so might cause Putin to go nuclear. While I think Putin is pure evil, and perhaps even a little insane, I don't think he is suicidal. Going nuclear would also guarantee his own end and cause the death of 10s of millions of his own citizens. There is no way to guarantee his threat is a bluff, but it is very likely.
But if NOW, when his invasion force has shown itself to be disorganized, weak, and incompetent (but very brutal in targeting civilians), is not the time to step in and vanquish his criminal assault (which we collectively have the firepower to do VERY quickly), then exactly when can we EVER do so?
If sending in our air and navy forces to help Ukraine is provocation for Putin to go nuclear than how is sending in $billions in weapons to help Ukraine help itself NOT provocation? That makes NO sense whatever.
All we are doing by donating weapons is slowing down the inevitable subjugation and insuring Putin continues to deliberately murder Ukrainian civilians until it is done.
Then what? Are our Appeaser-in-Chiefs really so brain-dead as to think this will not embolden Putin to expand yet again, and again with the threat that if we try to stop him he'll go nuclear?
What will we do when he next decides he can get away with annexing Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania, despite them being NATO members? Since NATO/western leaders are showing themselves, too F*King cowardly to act THIS time, why would Putin fear their reprisal then? The threat will not have changed! After that, Poland would only be next.
If we do not stop him now, we will wake up one morning in just a few short years and realize that much of Europe is once again under brutal totalitarian rule, along with all of south-east Asia courtesy of the green light we will have given China. Whether it be some variant of the old USSR, or fascist, or even czarist is irrelevant, all our equally evil.
Then how do we stand up to Putin (or his successors)? We will be reduced to begging to be left a little of our freedom for a little while longer, but of course what is left of the free world will continue to shrink until there is none.
The nuclear threat will never stop UNLESS WE STOP IT. We need to make sure Putin LOSES this war and Ukraine remains independent. If we do so, it is almost a certainty that Putin will be removed by his own government for being a failure, an embarrassment, and for costing his country and all the oligarchs that prop him up their fortunes.
If much of the world is going to evaporate in a nuclear war, what does it matter whether it happens now or in five years, or to our children soon after we are passed? And is leaving our children and theirs to live under a brutal totalitarian world better?
Now is the time, the ONLY time, to STOP PUTIN.