I am no expert on geopolitical matters, but it seems to me we are upon the precipice in terms of the mantra “never again.” After the destruction and bloodshed inflicted upon the millions of innocents by the Nazis in particular (there have certainly been many others), most civilized members of Western Nations vowed never again. Today on CNN, an old Ukrainian woman, identified as a survivor of the Nazis, said this was the worst thing she has ever experienced in her lifetime. Let that sink in for a moment. History is repeating in a sense, and we are either sitting on our hands, or our president seems to be telegraphing our pain thresholds to our enemies.
I suggest it’s time to stop reacting to Putin’s War, and start turning the tables on the warmonger instead, changing the environment, while maintaining Russia’s “golden bridge” (Sun Tzu used less colorful phrasing in The Art of War). We need to lay down a maximum battle duration that will be allowed for this conflict to continue—e.g. two more weeks—along with a prohibition against any associated escalations or resorting to chemical, biological, or radiological weapons with severe consequences. It needs to be declared that the rest of the world has a say in the what transpires; the moral and economic impacts of his atrocities are too great to be allowed to continue. We understand that there are environmental webs that interconnect everything, well, there are other connections, connections of humanity that are even more real, connections also between mankind and God. Accountability awaits.
Give him a way out, but make it clear that the majority of industrialized nations on the planet oppose Russia’s barbarous actions. It may also be worth pointing out the lack of any semblance of any coherent plan on their part other than just killing and destruction. They are like senseless waves of orcs, without thought or reason. Their military has become a meat grinder for those young men, all to appease the madman in the Kremlin.
Give them a black and white deadline that the fighting must draw down; it must end. Give them time to do so. If it does not end, we as the civilized nations must stand up and fight. Otherwise, Russia will obliterate every man, woman, and child within the smoking borders of that nation. In the darkness of a wicked night of July 1918, the Bolsheviks shot and bayoneted to death the entire Romanov family in a bloody basement of Yekaterinburg. With the murder of good Czar Nicholas II and family, the Soviet Union stirred in its mother’s womb. Perhaps the Russian Federation is not so far removed from its parent.
