There is a popular sentiment that Putin is Hitler and Ukraine should fight until Russia is completely driven out of the land it holds. With that, there are those demanding nothing but a full Russian surrender and a return to borders as they existed before the annexation of Crimea. This ignores some harsh truths. The first is this: Ukrainians cannot defeat Russia alone, regardless of how much military supplies NATO keeps giving them. The second harsh truth is that NATO cannot join the fight without it escalating into World War Three. And finally, and this is the one that the left finds hardest to swallow, Putin does have some legitimate security concerns regarding NATO, concerns born out of nearly a century, or more, of history with the rest of Europe.

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