Letter to the editor: Another diplomatic failure in Ukraine

We are doing the same thing with Putin that we did with Germany and Japan and many other diplomatic failures over the years.

I can still remember British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain holding a paper stating “peace for our time” in September 1938 after he gave Hitler what he wanted. In September 1939, Hitler invaded Poland.

We placed sanctions on Japan to stop their aggression in the Far East. They attacked Pearl Harbor, and World War II ravaged the world for four years. When the war ended in an Allied victory, the “diplomats” took over the war that the military won; the diplomacy weaklings lost the peace.

Putin is not going to stop now that he sees the weakness in our willingness to be physically involved together to stop him from restoring the Soviet Union to its once-powerful position. If we do not stop him now in Ukraine, China will observe our lack of unity and weak leadership and try to bring Taiwan under its control.

It is time to remove the “liberal diplomats” from sinking the ship of America before we really have the “war to end all wars.” Putin is a KGB graduate and, like a “rat in a corner,” he will not hesitate to push the button. The diplomats talk a good game but always come up as losers.

God, please help us and bless America again.

Rev. Tony Joseph

Johnstown

The writer is pastor of St. Stephen’s Orthodox Church, Latrobe.