YOU SAID IT: Stop them before it’s too late

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STOP THEM BEFORE IT’S TOO LATE

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The world needs to stop Russia in its tracks and send them back to Moscow with a bloody nose. The world could have thousands of fighter jets and bombers, making that 40-mile convoy an obliteration zone.

I saw the footage on TV of a Russian missile just missing a nuclear power plant and starting a huge fire close by. The Russians were shooting at the firefighters as they tried to put out the fire.

Do you really think Vladimir Putin will stop with Ukraine? What excuses are our political leaders going to make when he starts bombing the next country? We need to stand together and fight Russia with all the conventional weapons we can.

Putin is a lot of things, but he is not suicidal. He won’t use nuclear weapons because he would be committing Russia to be nuked back to the Stone Age. He knows that, in a nuclear war, everybody would lose.

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We learned the hard way in 1939. Let’s stop it now, before it’s too late for Ukraine.

ANDY ABBOTT

HAWKESBURY

(It’s already too late for many people.)

HAVE TO DO SOMETHING

We can’t wait on Vladimir Putin to stop while he’s destroying a country. He is a murderer, like Hitler, and it’s time to make new rules, and, if it’s called WW3, so be it. Let’s go. We’re gonna suffer regardless. It’s inhumane and wrong for NATO countries to sit back and watch a genocide happening in front of our eyes.

It’s how I feel, and how can anyone sit and watch when the world has the power to stop this slaughter by this madman?

MIKE DEFALCO

ARNPRIOR

(That’s some pretty tough talk.)

WILL ALL THINGS BE EQUAL?

It seems to me that our federal and provincial governments are now more staunchly opposed to unlawful protests, so how will these governments soon be punishing or sanctioning politicians, media, schools and corporate entities that support and/or endorse law-breaking protest groups?

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For one thing, taking on powerful corporate entities isn’t easy, and it will be interesting to see if our provincial and federal leaders will now show integrity and a lack of bias or favoritism by taking a firm stand against any who endorse, fund or support law-breaking protest groups.

Jeff Feenstra

MERRICKVILLE

(Isn’t that always the hope — that our leaders don’t support law-breakers?)

A COUP IN ORDER

The Russian invasion of Ukraine has resulted in continuing devastation. Buildings, schools, infrastructure and residential dwellings have been levelled. Thousands of lives have been lost and the number of deaths and injuries of Ukrainians (including children) are climbing rapidly. Sanctions imposed on Russia are having some effect on the Russian economy, but they have not stopped Russian President Vladimir Putin in pursuit of his goal to bring Ukraine under Russian rule.

Hopefully, senior Russian government officials will come to their senses and realize the atrocity created by the invasion, and then proceed to execute a coup to oust Putin from power, appoint a new leader with a mandate to bring the invasion to an immediate end and let Ukraine remains as an independent state.

The invasion must stop, and that will only happen if Putin is forcefully removed.

JOHN P. CARROCCETTO

OTTAWA

(Pinning hope on “senior Russian government officials” seems like a losing proposition.)