To Russia with love

Russia has taken advantage of its military might at a time of pandemic, Olympic Games, soaring inflation, and climate crisis, to desecrate a neighbouring country “illegally,” an absurd and obscene betrayal of the world order. If to take the life of one human being is a criminal act, then to take the lives of thousands of completely innocent people is beyond description — simply inhuman. It is time for the free world together to step up their response to the perverse tyrant directing this “operation,” to engage the aggressor more directly with a UN humanitarian force, to truly “liberate” the survivors in Mariupol in the name of all that is decent; and send the Russians back to Putin in Russia, with love.

Jim Warren, Hamilton