...but the proper response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine comes from Cato. Putin delenda est. Not terribly worried about whether the man gets a massive dose of polonium, dies of a hangnail infection, or gets jailed for unpaid parking tickets, but I'm praying that he (and his minions) are removed from power as soon as possible.
And here's an opportunity for sticking it to Putin; Russia apparently wants to hire mercenaries from Syria to attack Ukraine now. There are a bunch of things we can say about this, starting with "huh, close to a million Russian soldiers, and they've got to hire Syrians?", then "OK, so Syrians would be willing to fight for Russia after Russia basically leveled Aleppo?", but the thing that comes to mind for me as this is considered is "huh, to get to Russia, those planes need to fly over Turkey or Iraq, and I seem to remember we've got a little bit of "pull" with both countries."
We may not feel safe flying F-16s over Ukraine itself to stop the bear, but I think we are well within our rights and good sense to say a firm Nyet to Russia provisioning themselves this way. A glimmer of hope here as well is that sources are indicating that Russian logistics are about ten days away from collapse.
And this is a glimmer of hope for Putin's removal, since this error is more or less the same error that a previous Russian ruler, Nicholas II, made at the outset of World War One. We know how it turned out when he had one rifle for every three soldiers facing Paul von Hindenburg, and may Putin's end be no less emphatic.
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