THE WEST IS UNDER A MORAL OBLIGATION TO DEFEND UKRAINE: KUWAIT WAS DEFENDED.

ICHEOKU says the West goaded Ukraine out of the Kremlin's control and should stand with the country, shoulder to shoulder, as it defends its territory from Russia. The country is under a darkening fog of invasion by an overwhelmingly stronger and militarily more superior Russia, and cannot be left to its own devices. Will Russia tolerate the use of Western weapons in killing Russians without forcing the West into the conflict by striking a target in the West like Japan did with Hawaii? 

Anyway, weapons alone will not do the magic and cannot do the job as was shown with Afghanistan National Army, which were also militarily well supplied, yet they crumbled before the rag tag Taliban forces. Western boots on the ground will be needed and should be provided in addition. The West must boldly affirm its stand that every sovereign and independent country has the right to make its own foreign policy decisions and decide which direction it wants to go. Therefore, when Russia finally invades Ukraine, the West must see Ukraine as a brother in trouble and come to its assistance in fighting the Russian invaders.

If Russia will be bold enough to ignore all the threats of sanctions and proceed to invade Ukraine, the West must determine such as an action of a bully and come to the assistance of Ukraine with a direct military action against the invaders. The West must show Ukraine that they really support it by actually supporting it, and helping the heroes of Ukraine in giving death to the invaders and prospective occupiers. If Germans had been confronted when they first invaded Poland, they would have been stopped right there; and would not have had the impetus to take over more European countries. Ukraine will not be the only country in the menu of Russia; it will only be a trial run as Russia will consume every other former Soviet Socialist country if they get away with Ukraine. 

The currently prevailing argument that because Ukraine is not a member of NATO and therefore it is not entitled to benefit from the "attack on one is an attack on all" defense policy of NATO is simply a hogwash. Other countries which were not members of NATO have benefitted from the organization in the past. Kosovo for one; and when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, the Iraqi army was chased out Kuwait and the last time ICHEOKU checked, Kuwait was and is still not a member of NATO. It is either the West is afraid of fighting Russia or they know something which the public does not know about Russian military superiority, which they do not want to become advertised by going to a war with them and suffering a humiliating defeat in their hands.

The West must override any presently existing policy in their charter which will prevent NATO from directly engaging the Russian army when it invades Ukraine. At minimum, they can treat it as a special case which needs an exception; and issue a waiver designed to prevent a bully from bullying a less powerful and less stronger neighbor. It will help boost the moral credentials of NATO and reassure countries flirting with membership of NATO, that they can do it if they want, without fear of Russia attacking them. If NATO stays aside while Russia overruns Ukraine, it will produce a chilling effect on its membership-aspiring countries and will also weaken NATO's strength in the eyes of the world. If the organization cannot fight just one country, Russia, what then is the use for its existence? 

The West's resting their help on only weapons supply is not enough as the courage to effectively stand their ground in the face of a massive Russian invading army, might not be sufficiently available in the Ukraine military. They will need all the extra support and help they can get from NATO or elected Western countries' military, to shore them up and assure them that they are not alone in the fight and that they got their back. Even if such foreign military help will not go into a direct fighting with Russians, or to the battle front, at least they can man the logistics and supplies, as well as training additional Ukrainian volunteers, while enough of Ukraine trained soldiers are freed up to enable them deploy more troops into the battle fields as they confront the invading Russians. 

Ukraine is a laboratory test case for the future of European military and defense security; and as Ukraine goes, so shall many other European countries, the reason NATO must stand their ground firmly and help fight the war against Russia now in Ukraine, once and for all. The war with communism, which was once cold and now heating up, should be fought now instead of kicking the can down the road for a future time. This is the only way to finally decide the military superiority contest between the West and Russia, which is the primary cause of the lingering tension between the West and Russia, as one side has to be first militarily defeated in order to have a permanent peace. 

Such a war will be very lucrative to the military industrial complex and will also help grow the economy of the various countries which will supply and support the war effort. It is not enough to wish and hope and pray that President Vladimir Putin does not invade Ukraine or that President Vladimir Putin has been deterred by the barrage of threats of economic sanctions. The Russian strongman does not care and he showed it previously when he invaded Georgia and Ukraine, seizing their cities of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as well as Crimea, despite the then President Barack Obama's threats of crushing economic sanctions. President Vladimir Putin simply ignored them and they eventually turned out to be just ordinary empty hot air. 

Recall that the American government's position then was that "realistically Crimea is now effectively in Russian hands and the challenge going forward is how to deter Russia from taking over the Russian-speaking areas of east Ukraine or even the whole Ukraine." It has now been  shown that Vladimir Putin is not content with what he has already taken by force, and now wants more. He figured out that the West lacks the resolve to militarily confront Russia because the appetite for a real war between the West and Russia does not exist in the West, especially among Europeans, who have since succumbed to woke sissy politics, and he is now craving for more territorial seizures. 

Now that we are once again experiencing "the most dangerous situation in Europe since the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968", what is the West going to do about it? Is the West ready to put their military muscle where their economic sanctions threat mouth is, or will they shy away under the cover of Ukraine not being a member of NATO? Every right thinking person knows that bullies understand only one language, their language of force. They need to be bullied too or at least forced to stop bullying others by giving them a dose of their medicine; or as  William Shakespeare would put it, Measure for Measure. Stopping President Vladimir Putin's annihilation of Ukraine is a moral obligation which the West have, and they owe it to Ukraine now as a matter of cause. 

President Vladimir is marching on with his invasion and has literally encircled Ukraine with thousands of armored tanks and soldiers. He has also deployed the cold weather combat Siberia-based military unit and has ordered his nuclear bombers into full military readiness. Will the West wait and watch as he unleashes all these anacondas on a small Ukraine? Will the West be comfortable to entertain such high level deaths and destruction? If the West claims that Putin is miscalculating, why won't the West also "miscalculate" alongside Putin, afterall it takes fire to sometimes quench a fire. Is all the West's threats of "crushing economic sanctions" not what William Shakespeare described as a little gust of wind which enables an inferno to rage on? 

He did it before with South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Crimea and the sanctions then did not do jack to deter him and did not adversely impact Russia or President Putin. If Russia survived then,  why would President Vladimir Putin be deterred now by the same similar vacuous threat? What if he decides that Russia can ride out whatever sanction the West might impose and goes ahead to invade Ukraine? North Korea has been under such "crushing sanction" for a long time, yet their leader Kim Jong Un is still in power and the entire North Koreans have not been wiped out of hunger. What does President Vladimir Putin care if sanctions are imposed, as long as Russia occupies Ukraine? He does not care if he is perceived as "strategically weaker", whatever that means; as long as he is perceived as militarily so strong that NATO backed out from fighting Russia. 

ICHEOKU says it is time to put an end to his lawlessness and constant violations of international borders of his neighboring countries and getting away. NATO exists as a counterforce to Russia and it must stand up now to show, in fact, that it is really a counterforce against Russia. Ukraine is asking for all the help it can get to help defend itself from Russia and NATO should give it to them, including fighting men and women, to help them take on the Russian invaders when they finally arrive. It is no longer if, but when, Russia will invade Ukraine. The war is already afoot, with Russian soldiers eagerly waiting at the border for the order to breach Ukraine. So, when Ukraine finally asks NATO for some help with troops, will NATO answer Kiev and say, here they are, take as many as you need?