To the editor: In 1952, I obtained a historical past diploma from Boston College whereas finding out underneath the GI Invoice. Russia professional Frank Nowak was my professor. (“U.S. and NATO officers ramp up warnings of potential Russian aggression in Ukraine,” Feb. 17)
As a younger officer, Nowak was gassed throughout World Conflict I and reassigned to the American navy mission in St. Petersburg. He carried out scholar summer season excursions to the Soviet Union for years and interviewed Soviet leaders.
He realized that Russia created buffer zones alongside its borders, ostensibly for protection. Nonetheless, it made a behavior of ultimately incorporating them into the Soviet orbit.
Russian President Vladimir Putin adopted that process with Crimea, which is a part of Ukraine however was invaded by Russian forces and subsequently annexed in 2014. He has adopted up through the use of japanese Ukraine’s Russian-speaking space as a buffer zone, however evidently now needs it too to change into a part of his nation.
George Shahinian, Huntington Seashore
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To the editor: With the saber-rattling on each side, possibly Putin will accomplish his purpose with out ever getting into Ukraine by making the residents of that nation mistrust their very own authorities. He has made Ukrainians query their authorities’s means to maintain them secure and to safe prosperity for them.
With out ever firing a shot, Putin has disrupted the steadiness of Ukraine.
By no means underestimate Putin. He has gotten the North Atlantic Treaty Group to barter with him when he appears to don't have any intention of fixing his place. It jogs my memory of Germany simply earlier than World Conflict II.
Linda Shabsin, Diamond Bar
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To the editor: Putin can't be as cagey as our media depict him to be.
If he needs to invade Ukraine, all he must do is present the United Nations Safety Council some satellite tv for pc footage of Ukrainian vans carrying massive metallic tubes and say they're weapons of mass destruction.
An analogous technique labored for the George W. Bush administration and its cabal of warmongers, so it ought to work for Putin.
Don Moore, Redondo Seashore
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To the editor: When the Warsaw Pact grew to become defunct, one might say to NATO, “Mission achieved — effectively accomplished!” However what has occurred as an alternative?
Democratic Russia was snubbed by the West from its outset, NATO has swelled to incorporate landlocked and Jap European international locations, and in the present day it’s embroiled in a battle with Russia that endangers the world.
When a job is achieved, new sights are set, and discarding the previous or previous is completed. NATO has changed the Warsaw Pact as the brand new menace on the planet.
We Individuals, in a sober mild, ought to not have any hassle seeing that.
Robert Thomas, Miami Seashore, Fla.
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