President Trump should call to form an military alliance of Western countries/free world (maybe a coalition of the willing, perhaps only comprised of volunteering soldiers, not NATO, but maybe Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Argentina, Israel, Mexico, Iceland) to send troops and weapons to defend the Ukraine not unlike World War II. An effort like this was necessary to defeat Hitler. Perhaps we need another effort like this!
Europe should no longer quasi tolerate or downplay this war!
The key idea is for the Western military alliance to take a strong defensive position inside the Ukraine to e.g. prevent any further incursion into the Ukraine by Russian military forces and to highly secure the air space over the Ukraine. This would free up the Ukrainian military to go on the offensive and defeat the Russian invasion.
Since about mid-2024, the Ukraine has shown to the world how vulnerable the Russian interior is to drone warfare and sabotage against critical Russian infrastructure. Maybe Russia is only a paper bear with nuclear arms. If the Ukraine can keep up these very effective and successful attacks, we will find out how long Putin the Terrible survives in office.
Of course, Putin the Terrible has already issued already all kinds of threats e.g. should NATO get involved. Is he bluffing or posturing? Will the Russian elite and military go along if the war gets hotter and closer to home? Will North Korea or China still come to the aid of Russia? Maybe not!
There is already a legion etrangere (foreign legion) of Western volunteers activ defending the Ukraine against the military forces of Putin the Terrible! Unfortunately, there are only sparse news reports about it and the Ukraine is not exactly showcasing it. However, I suspect it is a significant number of Western volunteers. However, this is not enough!
Putin the Terrible is a ugly remnant of the Cold War and the former Soviet Union empire, a former KGB agent from east Germany, a wannabe Stalin successor.
It is clear by now that the lethargic, apathetic Russian Slav(e)s/Serfs are unwilling to get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac, warmonger and war criminal Putin the Terrible! Maybe more drastic war casualties of young Russian men will finally get the attention of an unwinnable war etc.
Given the large numbers of countries already involved on both sides of the war it is fair to say this war is already World War III. High time to end it!
It was a huge mistake by Western countries and specifically the lack of leadership by President Obama that the 2014 Russian invasion of Crimea was tolerated and not strongly opposed/repelled!
The Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons at the end of the Cold War for territorial integrity and security. Putin the Terrible could care less!
For any peace agreement with Russia, one sine qua non is for Russia to cede all occupied Ukrainian territories including Crimea.
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