
COLLINS: “As long as it takes” – Words we don’t want to hear.
U.S. PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN made a daring and brave trip to Kyiv, Ukraine last weekend. A move to show Western Solidarity with a country ravaged by a terrorist dictator continually committing war crimes and killing innocent civilians.
Vladimir Putin has little support outside his own country, but he continues to try and bully Ukraine into submission. It’s been a much tougher battle than Putin expected. He has lost billions in equipment, his military leaders have made mistake after mistake, but he continues to press on, using his sheer superiority in numbers.
The West has provided hundreds of billions of dollars in aid, in the form of tanks, missile detectors, howitzers, and the like, as well as humanitarian aid.
This battle is a critical one. Ukraine is literally fighting for its life. The West is fighting, not only to keep democracy alive but in a kind of greedy sense to keep gas and grain flowing to the West and not the East.