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Tradition has it that in the first century, Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
(Actually, if he was playing anything, it was a lyre.)
Today, the free world sits on its hands while Ukraine gets slaughtered.
Why? Because America, the leader of the free world, is itself being led by an incompetent president, whose familiarity with history doesn't go back even to the last century, during which he lived.
Appeasement didn't work with Hitler, and it won't work with Putin. Anyone who thinks that Ukraine is the limit of his ambitions should think again.
Putin is so consumed with grief and anger over the collapse of the Soviet Union that his ruling passion is to reestablish it.
And there will be no limit to his efforts to achieve that objective, regardless of the cost to his people or the people of any other country.
President Biden simply doesn't see what is before him: The opportunity not merely to stop a murderous aggressor but to solidify and enhance America's leadership position in the free world.
Instead, he is selling us down the river, with darker days to come and worse consequences than slightly more expensive gasoline. America is shirking its duty by not rallying and leading the rest of the free, world against this obvious and awful threat.
That is disgraceful and humiliating.
John M. Shaw
Hollidaysburg