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From Maia Mikhaluk in Kyiv (341st day of ruzzian invasion): There is finally an agreement to help Ukraine with tanks. Of course, between the decision and the actual arrival of tanks, there will be many weeks. There are now voices in the West that are saying this should have been done in the fall of last year. At the same time, a similar story is going on with military planes. It’s hard to understand how on the one hand, western officials could be admitting that it was wrong not to have helped with tanks in the fall when our army was on the counteroffensive, and on the other hand, they are doing the same thing delaying the planes.

Boris Johnson in his column for Washington Post recalls how the West encouraged bully and terrorist putin by going out of the way to appease him.

“We tried creative ambiguity, and see where it got us. For decades, we have used diplomatic doublespeak on the subject of NATO and Ukraine — and it has ended in total disaster.”

“And what is the result of all this sucking and blowing at once? What have we achieved by speaking softly out of both sides of our mouths? The result is the worst war in Europe for 80 years.”

“People used to claim that Ukraine wasn’t properly militarily compatible with NATO. Today, Ukrainians are deploying a dizzying variety of equipment from NATO countries, with the utmost skill and bravery.”

“So look at what happened when we went out of our way not to provoke Putin.
Instead of properly punishing him, we responded with a policy of craven appeasement.”

“In 2014 he invaded Donbas and Crimea. Far from helping Ukrainians to evict him from their country, we set up the tragicomic “Normandy Format,” under which Russia and Ukraine were treated as though they were equally at fault, when Russia was plainly the aggressor and Ukraine was the victim.”

“Putin didn’t invade because he thought that Ukraine was going to join NATO. He always knew that was vanishingly unlikely. He attacked Ukraine because he believed — with abundant evidence — that we were not really serious about protecting Ukraine. He attacked because he wanted to rebuild the old Soviet imperium and because he believed — foolishly — that he was going to win.
If we had been brave and consistent enough to bring Ukraine into NATO — if we had actually meant what we said — then this utter catastrophe would have been averted.”

“All our dodging and weaving has ended in slaughter.”

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