Well, that’s Putins excuse. In reality, it’s about a multibillionaire with too much power using his slaves as pawns for his & his Oligarchs gains. Deep Water Ports, Coal, Steel Industries, Food Bowl black soil plains and precious and rare metals, natural gas basins and more $. You see, Putin will have more countries sharing his precious borders over a greater land mass because he’s trying to expand Russian interests further to the west. Who’s next after Ukraine? He needs to be stopped now. 2014 would have been better, but now is the last opportunity to put the dog in a cage and under control for the sake of the whole of the free world. How the world responds now to Putin will determine the fate not only of Ukraine, but the rest of the free world as leadership in countries like China, India, North Korea and others watch on chewing on popcorn.

Sadly, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians have paid with their lives, livelihoods, homes and more while world leaders across he globe have sat on their hands (no, not all, but many). Tens of thousands of Ukrainian children have been stolen to bolster Russias future gene pool and probably 10’s of thousands of Ukrainian women have been stolen to Russian territories as slave labour. Acts of genocide. Ukraine will be morning their losses for generations.

Tanks can be uplifting when you’re facing an existential threat and suddenly, you’re given equipment and training to enable you to fight to protect what’s yours.