A unifying moment?

It appears all but certain now. Russia, led by former Soviet KGB agent and murderous thug Vladimir Putin, is determined to invade the Ukraine. 

Putin will give you a laundry list of reasons why Russia needs to launch this invasion, but this imminent attack appears to be an attempt by Putin to re-establish the Soviet Union's former glory in his eyes. 

In 2008, Putin used a false-flag operation to justify sending Russian troops into the former Soviet Republic of Georgia to reclaim "disputed" lands, which in the process gave way to some ethnic cleansing of Georgian citizens. 

In 2014, Putin used unsubstantiated claims of genocide as a pretext to annex the Crimea and invade eastern Ukraine. 

And now in 2022, Putin is desperately trying to stage another false flag event to justify to himself and the rest of the world that he is correct in invading a democratically-elected government in Ukraine. Maybe he has something against people who win actual elections.

Make no mistake, Putin is a murderer who has jailed opposition leaders and even poisoned and executed dissidents who have the audacity to speak the truth about the murderous, re-emerging Soviet regime. This is our Munich 1938 moment. 

We can either continue to appease this modern-day Hitler, or more aptly Stalin, or cut him off at the knees. Bury this Soviet resurgence in its infancy. The other option is to appease this thug, like those at Munich did when they shined Hitler's shoes and declared "Peace in our time." 

In the above video, you see how appeasing Hitler's demand for more living space for ethnic Germans, only encouraged the madmen to take more and more land until he eventually held the entirety of the European continent with the exception of the British Isles. If this situation sounds familiar it should because it is a similar argument to the one Putin is making for taking back land for traditional Russian-speaking people. 

If we appease Putin now, we are repeating one of the biggest mistakes in human history. We must not sell out Ukraine like the western powers sold out Czechoslovakia in 1938 to quiet baby Hitler with some more land. And economic sanctions are not enough. If they were, Putin and his regime would have already crumbled, and they have not. Economic sanctions only hurt the Russian people, not the oligarchs running the country, who steal their wealth from the Russian people. While the people will starve as a result of economic sanctions, Putin and his thugs will live high on the hog. 

No. The answer here is for the world, and more specifically NATO to deliver a John F. Kennedy like speech during the Cuban Missile Crisis, and hand Russia a military ultimatum or red line, and tell Putin what the consequences will be for crossing that line and when he does, or if he does, follow through on those consequences. 

Kennedy made it clear that an attack on any nation in the western hemisphere by Cuba would be considered an attack on United States by the Soviet Union and would be met with a military response. That is how this current crisis needs to be addressed, and if you appease Putin, he will only get more aggressive. "The greatest danger of all would be to do nothing," Kennedy said.

In this moment of national peril, one would hope that Republicans and Democrats would put down the arrows they have used against each other, and instead use the arsenal to attack the common foe, a former KGB agent determined to re-establish the Soviet empire. But even now, the Republican Party, the faction of Ronald Reagan, who helped bring down the evil empire in early 1990s, is now defending Putin and his murdering goons. 

This is a line in the sand not only for Putin, but for the Republican Party, which use to claim to be all about national defense and democracy. If you love peace in this country and support democracy here and around the world, hold your treasonous Republican leaders accountable at the ballot box.