Dennis Carr: U.S. should call off the vicious dogs of empire in Ukraine

Ukrainian soldiers from The 56th Separate Motorized Infantry Mariupol Brigade prepare to fire a multiple launch rocket system based on a pickup truck towards Russian positions at the front line, near Bakhmut, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. AP PHOTO/EFREM LUKATSKY

Published: 03-08-2024 1:41 PM

Modified: 03-08-2024 8:16 PM

This is in response to two recent columns, one from Dr. E. Martin Schotz [“Rethinking U.S. interests on anniversary of war,” Feb. 20] and one from Lyle Denit [“Ukraine deserves a better kind of peace,” March 4]. Both are well-considered perspectives, where I find that Mr. Denit has erred is in stating that: “The Ukrainian people have chosen to move toward a free Europe.”

They have not. The Ukrainian people chose a leader who espoused neutrality. A corrupt leader by many accounts, but one who held that Ukraine did not need to choose sides. We would have none of that and so partook of yet another overthrow of yet another democratically elected government. And the line from there to here is quite direct.

Ukraine, and the rest of the world, does deserve a better kind of peace, one in which the United States has called off her vicious dogs of empire.

Dennis Carr

Cummington