Reader's View: Protect, defend Ukraine

Reader's View: Protect, defend Ukraine

Russia is a menacing and destructive presence in the world. In the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979-1989), an estimated 1.2 million civilians were killed. In Chechnya from 1999 to 2009, we witnessed brutality by the Russian military, with an estimated 150,000 to 200,000 civilian deaths from bombings, missile strikes, and artillery. There also were executions, rapes, torture, child deportations, atrocities, and war crimes similar to what we a…