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To All Politicians: Would You Send Your Sons and Daughters Into War?
You wouldn’t
When this war started, we all knew that there were going to be lots of victims, civilian and military. Putin invaded Ukraine last week, and it’s not likely he will stop without getting what he wants: Ukrainian neutrality.
The way he wants to achieve that is by taking over the country.
Instead of conversations by NATO, the European Union, Ukraine and Russia, he decided to attack after declaring the provinces of Donetsk and Luhansk independent Russian states.
But now we get to a point that inhabitants of member-states of the European Union are voluntarily wanted to fight in Ukraine — that’s fine, if you want to do that, that’s your right.
But, I’m afraid some politicians might want to get involved in this war.
It’s a war between the Russians and the Ukrainians, and although I think that the Ukrainians are going to be outnumbered by the Russians, it’s not up to Western Europe to fight there.
In Dutch Parliament, Wybren van Haga asked: “Would you send your sons and daughters to fight?”.
The answer is probably no. I wouldn’t.
