In its third week, the war in Ukraine has escalated further. The Russians barbarously attack the city of Mariupol, with the shelling of a children’s hospital as a tragic low. It is indigestible that Russian President Putin is sacrificing so many lives for what is merely a nationalistic chimera: the idea that Ukraine is not a nation, but belongs to Russia.
ttn-23
As long as the West does not want to get involved in the war itself, the means to stop Putin are scarce
![](https://taketonews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/As-long-as-the-West-does-not-want-to-get.jpeg)