Ukraine is an Independent, Sovereign Democracy and It Is Entitled to Peace Without the Sacrifice of Its Territory

Any American politician that does not support a Ukrainian peace agreement that restores all of Ukraine's sovereign territory to its rule, including the Crimea, and the Donbas, is a traitor to America.  

All of this talk about negotiating this and what price Ukraine must pay for peace in a war that it did not start is ridiculous.  It shows no understanding whatsoever of any kind of American idealism, the kind of strength, freedom and humanitarian consideration upon which our nation was built, and after whom the Ukrainians modelled their democratic republic.  

Any true, patriotic American who has any understanding at all of what our own country stands for, and the values it represents cannot take any other position, other than demanding Russia withdraw from Ukraine, all of its territory is restored, all of the people they have kidnapped are returned and then, that Russia pay for the damage they have inflicted.  

There is no integrity in anything else.  There is no value and respect for freedom or democracy in any other position.  

Ukraine's struggle for freedom has been a much longer and much more difficult one than just about any other European nation.  From the Czarist days of the Russian empire, Ukrainians have sacrificed the sovereignty of their nation and the unique identity of their culture, to which Russia owes a great deal of its own position in the world.  Ukraine bore the brunt of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, its cities and cultural landmarks damaged and destroyed, its people murdered, its Jewish population, larger than any other place in Europe except Poland, decimated in the Holocaust.  And it suffered under communism, as a vassal state within the Soviet Union.  

Now, it is free.  And it is fighting for its freedom against an oppressive enemy, defending itself remarkably from an unprovoked and unjustified attack.  The fact that the United States has not openly and wholeheartedly embraced Ukraine, and given it far more support than we have is a black mark on our own patriotic values, and those who have resisted helping the Ukrainians are showing their lack of patriotism.  

We could redeem our integrity by raising our support to the level necessary for the Ukrainians to make Moscow quit and give back what they've taken.  That is the only satisfactory, patriotic American kind of peace that is acceptable in Ukraine.