I met a Ukrainian today. He is my age. I met him at school drop off, our sons are in the same kindergarten class.
They recently arrived here from overseas. I welcome them, but I wish we had done more to help Ukraine.
There are numerous places in the world where people are being displaced by state violence, but I don’t think there’s anywhere that it’s being done by a global power so directly. It’s similar to Gaza/Palestine & Israel, but Russia can end the war by simply going home.
If we had been meeting our NATO obligations for the last 30 years, would this family have been driven out of their home? I don’t know. (I actually know almost nothing about their personal circumstances)
I just feel like we should have done more, and that it’s not too late.
I only know what I read in the popular press, but believe Russia/Putin regards Ukraine as a physical buffer between Russia and the threat of invasion. I don’t think a stronger (or weaker) NATO would have changed that belief.
That’s propaganda, the Kremlin knows NATO isn’t going to invade them. If they wanted to, they’d do it now while the Kremlin can’t even stop mercenaries marching on Moscow.