To the editor: Whereas I applaud Mikhail Alexseev’s concern in regards to the must cease Russian chief Vladimir Putin’s barbaric invasion and destruction of a sovereign nation, I have to take exception to his need to ascertain a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
I imagine that doing so can be the equal of luring the U.S. and its allies right into a warfare with Russia. This may assist the Russian dictator justify what he's doing and supply propaganda for his false concept that Ukraine instigated this horrible warfare.
Even the usually hawkish Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) has mentioned that implementing a no-fly zone over Ukraine would end in World Warfare III.
I imagine that the U S. has helped Ukraine tremendously by sending weapons, ammunition, rocket launchers and sufficient Javelin missiles to counter each Russian tank.
Donald L. Singer, Cardiff, Calif.
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To the editor: I'm a liberal Democrat, however I be a part of Alexseev and disagree with President Biden’s technique of not “escalating” the battle in Ukraine by declining to implement a no-fly zone and refusing to ship MiG-29 fighter jets to Ukraine.
Putin began this warfare and escalates it daily. Defending Ukraine is just not escalation.
What I'm saying, I feel most Individuals assist. It’s been three weeks, and we witness the each day slaughter of defenseless Ukrainians as they combat for his or her homeland. We preserve saying we don’t know what Putin will do if we do that or that, and we don’t need to incite him.
However sending jets or implementing a no-fly zone is a defensive measure and tells Putin he can cease his empty threats of beginning a nuclear warfare. He is aware of attacking the West with nukes would imply the top of his nation.
We are able to finish this warfare, Putin’s expansionism and the struggling of the harmless Ukrainians, in addition to put down a marker that Russia and different dictators can not invade sovereign nations when it fits them, by standing up for Ukraine.
David McLane, Pasadena
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To the editor: Alexseev dusts off the discredited “domino concept” from the Sixties, when the Lyndon B. Johnson administration advised us that if the U.S. didn't defend South Vietnam, North Vietnam (backed by China) would lengthen its communist attain to the Philippines, New Zealand, Australia and, earlier than we knew it, the seashores of San Diego.
Alexseev repositions this preposterous situation for the Ukraine disaster, with analogies to Europe within the late Nineteen Thirties, the place Ukraine turns into the Sudetenland, Putin turns into Hitler and Biden is Neville Chamberlain.
Alexseev concludes his surreal argument by making an argument that seems to be what former California Gov. Jerry Brown referred to as in a latest essay “crackpot realism.” Risking nuclear warfare is proposed as the required “audacity” to stop the formation of a brand new Festung Europa, dominated this time by Russia.
We are able to solely hope that Biden continues along with his commendable warning.
Leigh Clark, Granada Hills
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To the editor: How lengthy can we stand by as Russia decimates and finally annexes a correctly constituted democratic nation?
I perceive the dangers of an precise faceoff between Russia and the U.S., however don’t we stand for something anymore?
Putin calling his unprovoked incursion into Ukraine a “particular navy operation” brings to thoughts George Orwell’s “1984,” the place phrases imply what Massive Brother says they imply.
We should discover a technique to do extra.
Anne Beaty, Los Angeles
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