Putin must face intense pressure from NATO

Re: “Putin must go,” April 10 commentary

New York Times columnist Bret Stephens wrote, “mostly the world has found it easier to make excuses to get along with Putin than to work against him.” It is time to work against him.

By allowing an ego- driven madman to continue to regroup, resupply, and appoint generals to command with a history of slaughter ( Aleppo, Syria), the NATO alliance appears weak with no respect for a country’s borders.

The expenditure of billions of dollars alone will not stop a mad man.

Sanctions may eventually work, but in the interim, more innocent men, women and children will be tortured, raped, kidnapped and killed; Ukraine’s infrastructure will be in ruins; people will starve; the refugee problem will grow, and children will lose precious years of education and be emotionally scarred.

It is time for NATO to work against him. NATO must stop worrying about WW III and get its planes in the air, bomb the Russian convoys, sink Russian ships, and open Putin’s eyes. Putin will take notice and hopefully, he will finally understand that he can not invade a sovereign country again. NATO and the world will not allow it to happen. It is time “to work against him!”

Barbara Morton, Highlands Ranch

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