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  1. It is mind boggling to hear Vladimir Putin warn the west not to send the weapons to Ukraine that it needs to defend itself. That's like being in a shipwreck and the captain saying not to throw life preservers to certain people swimming for their lives or he will shoot those who try to help them. To send in hypersonic missiles and rain down missiles and phosphorous bombs on civilian targets and to have Russian tanks blast away at apartment buildings and level the Ukrainian infra-structure and burn down homes and kill civilians and rape the women and throw them in mass graves is what President Putin's roving bands of military exercise specialists has been doing to a sovereign state. We must remember that under international law that was signed by Moscow, all the treaties say that sovereign countries get to choose what alliances sovereign countries belong to. Treaties like the UN Charter was signed by Russia. The 1975 Helsinki agreement was signed by the Soviet Union. The 1990 Charter of Paris for a new Europe was also signed by the Soviet Union. The 1997 NATO Russia Founding Act was equally signed by the Russian Government. All those documents were signed by either the Soviet Regime or the Russian regime, which is the legally recognized international inheritor i.e., successor of the Soviet State. The fact is those agreements are still in place and they clearly state that sovereign countries can freely choose their foreign policy and what alliances they want to join. For the President of Russia to warn western nations not to help the Ukrainians defend themselves is pure hypocrisy and insulting to the free world writ large.
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