I just send this email to Senator Ben Sasse, no-nonsense US Senator for Nebraska:
Ben Sasse is calling for more support for Ukraine's defense.
I totally agree. The political impediment to providing more for Ukraine is Putin's repeated threat of the use of nuclear weapons. This threat has neutralized the West and rendered it impotent. If that threat could be eliminated then more military support could be provided to Ukraine, as Ben Sasse is calling for.
Both Ukraine and China share borders with Russia. China has a very close relationship with Putin, and will game this conflict to China's advantage, meaning they will be of no help to Ukraine or the West. HOWEVER, China needs to be called out by the West and by Ukraine. Ben Sasse can lead that charge. No doubt, China has received assurances from Putin that Putin has no real plans to use nuclear weapons.
Chairman Xi of China owes it to his people to share with them those assurances. otherwise he is putting his own citizens at risk. China needs to be called out in a very PUBLIC way on Putin's threat of the use of nuclear weapons. If he does not, then China will be held responsible by the West should Putin resort to the use of nuclear weapons. China will OWN that outcome, as they are the only country with sway over Russia.
This needs to happen ahead of the NATO meeting in Brussels on March 24, 2022. Once the threat of nuclear weapons has been taken off the table, then Russia will be in a MUCH weaker position, and politicians in the West will be less able to deny Ukraine the military support it needs to WIN this war. China will be in a corner, as they will be compelled to reveal what they know about whether Putin's threats are real or simply bluff, since the 1.5 billion Chinese people who share a border with Russia are very much at risk, since no nation can stand idly by while nuclear weapons are exchanged.
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