On Sun, Feb 27, 2022 at 6:11 AM smitra <[email protected]> wrote:
> > *> Russian protests should have been rebuffed by saying that Ukraine is > asovereign country and it is therefore allowed to request > militaryassistance.* Russian protests were rebuffed and America did send military aid to Ukraine and is continuing to do so. > > > *> We should have acted weeks earlier. When it became clear that Russia > was planning some sort of a large scale military assault, we should have > stopped Putin right there by sending large amounts of arms including > Patriot systems to Ukraine.* The latest iteration of the patriot missile system is a very sophisticated piece of equipment that needs highly trained technicians to set up, troubleshoot, and operate. No Ukrainian has received any training on it and it would take not weeks but the better part of a year for anyone to get up to speed. So if Patriot missiles are to be sent to Ukraine then American soldiers will have to be sent too as they are the only ones that have sufficient training. And American boots on the ground would be a huge step along the escalation road that dead ends at total war. It should be remembered that although Russia is an economic pygmy with a GNP less than that of California or even Texas, it's still a military superpower with thousands of thermonuclear warheads at its disposal. And I also remind you that Ukraine is not a member of NATO, it takes a unanimous vote to bring in a new member, there are 30 members in NATO and as of today I don't believe a single one would approve of Ukraine joining. John K Clark See what's on my new list at Extropolis <https://groups.google.com/g/extropolis> 2to > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/CAJPayv0t0GYw1xzmd2wNVF63kZJvo63h-EgqjY0-_vPAq2dxpQ%40mail.gmail.com.
