{"id":455465,"date":"2022-05-31T01:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/we-cant-give-putin-a-win\/"},"modified":"2022-05-31T01:44:50","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T22:44:50","slug":"we-cant-give-putin-a-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-cant-give-putin-a-win\/","title":{"rendered":"#We can&#8217;t give Putin a win"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e671bb6208\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2e671bb6208\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/we-cant-give-putin-a-win\/#%E2%80%9CWe_cant_give_Putin_a_win%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;We can&#8217;t give Putin a win&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWe_cant_give_Putin_a_win%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;We can&#8217;t give Putin a win&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>For the third time since becoming president, Joe Biden has said he would send US forces to defend Taiwan should mainland China launch an attack. And for the third time, White House staff and the State Department had to \u201cwalk back\u201d (diplospeak for \u201cdeny\u201d) that the US position has not changed from its \u201cone China\u201d policy.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps President Biden means to dissuade Beijing. But this is the same president who too rapidly withdrew US forces from Afghanistan and promised not to send troops to Ukraine to help that government repel Russia\u2019s invasion. The excuse given was that Russia is a nuclear power. So is China. What\u2019s the difference?<\/p>\n<p>Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, now 98 years old, has jumped into the fray. In an address to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Kissinger said Ukraine must give up some of its territory to Russia for the war to end and to avoid a wider conflict.<\/p>\n<p>Kissinger has it wrong. If Ukraine surrendered territory to Russia, it would likely invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to move against other countries once under control of the Soviet Union. Would he be OK with ceding those territories to Moscow to avoid global \u201cdestabilization\u201d and a wider conflict?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-383-1.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"If Ukraine surrenders, Putin will stop at nothing to invade more territories.\" class=\"wp-image-22466633\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-383-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-383-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-383-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>If Ukraine surrenders, Putin will stop at nothing to invade more territories.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Sputnik\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If there was a side benefit to the Cold War, it was that Democratic and Republican administrations \u2014 along with most members of Congress \u2014 were consistent on their <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>roach to Russia and Communism. Moscow knew where we stood, and that contributed to what President Ronald Reagan called \u201cpeace through strength.\u201d It also led to the collapse of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe and freedom for millions of people.<\/p>\n<p>I understand the feelings of those who say we can\u2019t be the policemen of the world and with our $30 trillion debt we can\u2019t afford sending troops everywhere. But \u2014 and this is a large but \u2014 if evil is not opposed, it will spread. That is a lesson from history that will be repeated if it is not addressed.<\/p>\n<p>Doing nothing and turning a blind eye to evil is what allowed Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to wreak havoc on the world. Exhausted by the carnage of World War I, the West was reluctant to fight again, and the consequence of that reluctance was more carnage that might have been reduced had we acted sooner.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-380.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Turning a blind eye to evil is what precipitated Adolf Hitler's rise to power.\" class=\"wp-image-22466640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-380.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-380.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-380.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Turning a blind eye to evil is what precipitated Adolf Hitler\u2019s rise to power.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Yes, George Washington warned against the danger of \u201cforeign entanglements,\u201d but that was a far different era. And yes, Dwight Eisenhower warned against the \u201cmilitary-industrial complex\u201d that always seems to find wars it wants to fight and demand new weapons to fight them.<\/p>\n<p>On the subject of war, John Stuart Mill is worth quoting: \u201cWar is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse,\u201d he wrote in \u201cPrinciples of Political Economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, \u2014 is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-382.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"A destroyed residential building in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine.\" class=\"wp-image-22466645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/thomas-kissinger-382.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>A destroyed residential building in the Luhansk Region of Ukraine.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Somewhere between isolationism and intervention there must be a middle ground. Finding it is up to our leaders. Where are those leaders, and what is our foreign policy? Those questions had better be answered quickly or the consequences from delay could be severe.<\/p>\n<p><em>Cal Thomas\u2019 latest book is \u201cAmerica\u2019s Expiration Date: The Fall of Empires and Superpowers and the Future of the United States.\u201d<\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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