Letter-writer Kathleen Bollinger (“More to the story on Ukraine”) has a point that liberal media is one-sided and that Russia and Ukraine have been fighting since 2014, but that is all.
Russians are not bad people, but they endure repression of religion, free speech and the truth. Now we have the ruling military government mindset that has a history of horrors dating back to the deaths of 20 million Russians directly linked to Stalin up to today’s Putin, a former KGB lieutenant colonel who has his own credits of missing people, including journalists.
You cannot be that disengaged to see that the Russian government has always hated the freedoms we enjoy in the West. Now Putin is threatening Sweden and Finland and is meddling in Africa’s politics. Do you remember Georgia, and Chechnya? How about the annexation of Crimea? If Ukraine falls, Putin will control a huge section of the eastern coastline of the Black Sea. This means military and economic domination of Eastern Europe. You getting the picture?
World leaders have called Putin and some of his officers war criminals. You don’t get that title by being the “Good Humor” man. The BBC has reported on the rape of women and children, atrocities committed against innocent civilians, and mass murders covered in mass graves.
Ms. Bollinger, you need to talk to some local refugees about the horrors of Russian domination; or better yet, volunteer as an aid worker in Poland to see firsthand what horror really looks like.
God bless these people in their fight for freedom.
Jack Juris
Buffalo Township