More Ukraine aid could prevent World War III

We should be sending a lot more than the jets that still haven’t appeared while Russian President Vladimir Putin brags that he’s winning and will soon take over Ukraine as planned.

Our blindness, penny-pinching and GOP obstruction could end in a catastrophe for Europe and disaster for our own national security right here at home.

Malcolm Odell, Exeter, N.H.

Americans’ failure to see how a Russian occupation of Ukraine will greatly endanger our allies and the United States itself is chilling.

If Republicans can be persuaded to vote to provide assistance to Ukraine by seeing a Ukraine breakthrough of the Russian defenses, perhaps the following Ukraine tactic could do just that: The 600-mile defense line the Russians created has an end at a spot west of the city of Kherson; going around this end, the Ukrainian forces can avoid the well-nigh impenetrable Russian defenses, turn north toward their Crimean objective, occasionally dismantling Russian defenses, now on their left, to allow reinforcements to join them.

Peter Raudenbush, Falls Church

I am alarmed at the possibility that our aid to Ukraine will end. Some are asserting that we didn’t react fast enough, even though we clearly needed the commitment of our allies before acting. That Russia started a war of choice aligns with Russian President Vladimir Putin’s goal to reclaim former Soviet Union territories, including by force against a democratically elected government.

If Mr. Putin wins this war, there will be nothing to stop him from continuing west. Mr. Putin has had a vision of a country stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific under Russian control. Mr. Putin is a man who locks up innocent people to use them as bargaining chips.

Are our NATO allies no longer important to us? Are we going to abandon them? The United States has become a very unreliable partner. Foreign policy should never be politicized.

How would we feel if we wake up to the headline “Ukraine falls to Russia”?

Jean W. Helz, LaVale, Md.