> I’m not one for continuing to believe that we have to coddle rogue states by buffer zones. 80 years since ww ii ended and I would have hoped the states changed. Obviously not. If Ukraine wants to be European, let it.

That's all very nice, and no one likes coddling rogue states, but is it better than the alternative, if that alternative is war? That's the dilemma. This kind of "give me liberty or give me death" kind of rhetoric is easy to espouse if you're not the one doing the dying.