This is the right thing to do. This or give the Ukrainians some nuclear weapons to defend themselves.
I hope that is satire.
This is the right thing to do.
Why?
Never mind the Gulf of Tonkin stench around this provocation, ask yourself why on earth is a Ukrainian tug going under a Russian bridge with a gunboat escort?
How would you expect our coast guard to react if a Cuban tug with two gunboats decided to sail under the Brooklyn Bridge and didn't heed instructions?
This smells like a setup to derail presidential talks, as well as provide an unpopular puppet in Ukraine with martial law leading up to the next election.
Given the amount of nuclear weapons stationed in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, it is plausible there may be a few left over that were “forgotten” about...
Ukrainians are not ignorant of the nature of Russia. I wouldn’t blame them for keeping a few dozen just in case.