Editor, Gazette-Journal:
In February 2022, a corrupt oligarchy (Russia) invaded another corrupt oligarchy (Ukraine). Russia started the war and is the cause of the conflict. In a just world, Russia would pay the price for its actions which started the conflict.
In the realworld we live in, we are saddled with the tragic events in Ukraine of the past three years. Prior to the invasion, the population of Ukraine was 44 million people. According to the BBC, 5.2 million of those people have left Ukraine as refugees. Large percentages of those refugees are draft dodgers. I work in the maritime industry, and prior to February 2022, one third of all the ships I attended had Russian/Ukrainian crews. I have not worked a vessel fully crewed by Russians/Ukrainians since the fall of 2022. I have since met individual Ukrainians mixed in with other nationalities who are all draft dodgers who have left Ukraine and who speak very derisively of the people who are fighting the war. “All the guys who wan...