The Issue: The European Union’s lack of involvement in President Trump’s Russia-Ukraine peace deal.
Dominic Green is correct to point out that the Europeans need to do more to help Ukraine on their own continent (“The Kids’ Table,” PostOpinion, Dec. 8).
But describing the proposed peace plan to end the war as “a triple win for the Europeans” is absurd.
How does removing sanctions on Russia make it less of a threat to Europe?
This plan is nothing more than another “reward for terror.”
Daniel Kuncio Tribeca
How does Europe win by rewarding an aggressor nation and having little deterrence against future conflict?
Europe is slow to contain Russia.
But Ukrainians have had promises of protection before.
In 1994, they relinquished their nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the United States, the United Kingdom and Russia.
How did that work out?
Ukraine shouldn’t concede an inch of territory without a NATO membership guarantee.
Larry Sylvester Acton, Ontario
Green writes that Europe “would rather risk war on Putin’s terms than peace on Trump’s.”
After the fall of France in 1940, the British were willing to continue the war on Winston Churchill’s terms rather than accept a peace on Adolf Hitler’s terms.
This cost countless lives and the war continued for five more years.
Given that the United Nations Charter prohibits the acquisition of land by force, there is much to be said for not allowing a Security Council member to directly violate that principle.
Bruce Couchman Toronto, Ontario
The big dealmaker’s benighted perspective on this war is getting in the way of formulating a peace plan that honors Ukrainian sovereignty.
Meanwhile, Czar Putin is staying with Lenin’s dictum that “if you encounter mush, proceed.”
James Hyland Beechhurst
The peace deal is simple: Crimea and the four oblasts are Russian. Ukraine is to remain neutral with a reduced military, no NATO country troops present, and a de-Nazification of some sort. Russia would follow that deal.
If Ukraine does not accept, Russia might take Odessa, advance to the Dnieper River, and demand war-crimes trials for Ukrainian officials.
Walter Kitchenman Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
The Issue: Luigi Mangione’s alleged murder of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson.
I’m a law-abiding American citizen, and am really sick of hearing that the entitled killer Luigi Mangione is a hero (“Luigi had a to-do list,” Dec. 9) .
He allegedly took a father and husband’s life in a cold-blooded ambush.
I don’t doubt that he did it, no matter how much defense lawyers are trying to suppress the evidence.
Maybe if our elected lawmakers stopped inciting Americans to disobey laws, we would go back to being a much better country for all.
Joann Mirone Old Greenwich, Conn.
Unlike his Nintendo counterpart, a plumber, this Luigi is only clogging our criminal-justice system.
Oliver Mosier Brooklyn
Our society includes an element of depravity, as the gunman who allegedly murdered United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson is admired by many who appear to believe that if you have a complaint against someone or their company, you have a license to kill.
If the only photographs shown in the aftermath of the murder were those of the victim, and if an emphasis were placed on the damage that’s been inflicted upon his wife, children and all who loved him, the savages who take the lives of others would have some wind taken out of their sails.
Oren Spiegler Peters Township, Pa.
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