So, Niles Pierce, neither Lithuania nor Romania is worth defending against naked aggression? What countries do you consider important enough to defend?
I daresay that if the world had intervened back in 2014 when Russia annexed Crimea, countless displaced or dead Ukrainian men, women and children would be happily going about their daily lives, rather than cowering in cellars during indiscriminate bombing raids on nonmilitary targets or burying their dead. At least NATO might be the bulwark against further aggression by a deranged madman who longs for the glory days of the former Soviet Union.
Where is your compassion for the other, Mr. Pierce? Put yourself in the shoes of the Romanian and Lithuanian, whose only crime was to be born in countries that lie in the shadow of Russia. We are our brother’s keeper.
Michael J. McAinsh, Salt Lake City