(#5351) Ukraine needs advanced weapons

      The F-16's would be a game changer but they will not likely arrive before the end of the year. The long range missiles would also be a game changer but the hesitancy from the west to supply Ukraine with them is not helpful. So what is Ukraine to do to protect world democracy against a democracy destroyer like Russia's putin? The only real option Ukraine has is to put their troops into greater jeopardy. The Ukrainian infantry will be relied upon to do the work that advanced weapons could do. The difference being brave Ukrainian soldiers will lose their lives.
     It saddens me and every democracy loving patriot around the world that The Ukrainian soldiers will be expended where in a more courageous world they would still be alive to see the eventual victory over tyranny. It has been so since the beginning of time that old men fight wars and young men die in them. Young men and women in the Ukrainian forces do not need that same historic fate. We the old men of the world must remember to live our lives as if we were young and do everything in our power to protect the young so that their time in existence is a value to them and our species at large.
     Ukraine should not have to sacrifice their young souls against the monster putin. Ukrainians stood up to putin to fight for the ideal of democracy so the rest of us who are not on the battlefield need to back the Ukrainians with everything we have. This fight in Ukraine is existential as it is for the very survival of our species. Democracy is the only instrument of an enlightened society that will guarantee the continuation of our species. As we see now with the tyrant putin and his threats, democracy is the only check on the madness some deranged men too often display. We the world need to give the Ukrainians all they need and do it now before more of the bravest souls on Earth have to die when the appropriate weapon would have sufficed.