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Putin has rather clearly expressed his intention to restore the Soviet Union countries as Russian. Poland is one of them. Dismissing that as rhetoric would be foolish given his behavior to date with Ukraine, Georgia, Chechyna. Biden has, so far, been trying to avoid direct confrontation with NATO but the Russian "spokesmen" have been characterizing their war as defending against NATO despite it being an invasion by Russia.

In WWII, Germany and Italy declared war after the Japanese attack, yes, but also in response to Roosevelt's lend lease support of Britain and, wait fo it. . . Russia.

I favor support of Ukraine as long as they have a reasonable chance of prevailing. Ukrainians have not forgotten Stalin's starvation of them, nor should they. It represents Russia's attitude toward them as a culture. Putin seems to have adopted Stalin's tactics.

Finland and Sweden have applied for NATO membership. I wonder why. Perhaps it's because Russia is openly proclaiming its "right" to be an empire. I don't suppose I need to bring up Chamberlain's failure.

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Well, if you take away their weapons, you insure that they lose. You also insure that Putin will keep on being Putin. At some point, he needs to be stopped. Remember Hitler? How about when Putin goes after Poland? They aren't the U.S. either. Do you think we should have stayed out of WWII? We could have. Poland, France and England weren't the U.S. either.

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