Randy Smith: Is it time for the U.S. and NATO to intervene in Ukraine?
What’s wrong is all we’re doing is watching it. That’s it.
Randy Smith: Is it time for the U.S. and NATO to intervene in Ukraine?
Some consider that it would be tantamount to WWIII or that it might provoke Putin to unleash nuclear weapons. Is it really WWIII if we remove one country’s forces from a country it illegally invaded? And quite frankly, Putin is no dummy, he knows who is supplying all the military assistance to Ukraine, so in essence a version of WWIII is already in progress. At the least, it’s a proxy war between western democratic versus authoritarian ideologies.
As for the potential for nuclear conflict if NATO intervenes, some of our most respected retired generals and admirals doubt Putin would resort to all-out nuclear war. Douglas London, ex-CIA station chief agrees: “But he's not the suicidal type either if escalating pressure is brought to bear.”