Gen. Mark Hertling: Anyone suggesting Ukraine give up any inch of their sovereign territory is

[highplainsdem]

violating our US national values.

Link to tweet

It isn't just his opinion.

Note: This is from a very long thread posted just a little while ago by Tomconroy (thanks, Tom!), whose thread is at https://democraticunderground.com/100216765568 -- and I want to direct people to that thread to read and comment on the entire 29-tweet thread Gen. Hertling posted.

But I was particularly struck by that statement in Hertling's last tweet, and I wanted to highlight it in a separate OP.

[Karadeniz]

1. Totally agree!!!

[COL Mustard]

2. Oh, come now.

What's the worst that could happen if Germany takes the Saarland? The Sudetenland? Half of Poland? Hitler is rational and reasonable, and he only wants land that used to make up Greater Germany


Oh, excuse me. I just woke up from an 80 year long nap. What's happening today?

[patphil]

9. You're "woke"? Excellent!

[highplainsdem]

14. Does seem like a nightmare replay of that appeasement, doesn't it?

[Tomconroy]

3. Bravo!

[keithbvadu2]

4. Genius strategy acc to Trump. How much of Alaska would Trump give to Putin?

https://www.history.com/news/chamberlain-declares-peace-for-our-time-75-years-ago

[highplainsdem]

15. Probably would depend on how many hotels Putin would allow Trump to build in Russia.

[PortTack]

5. Absolutely it is!!

Humiliate pootie??

Kids died due to the injuries they endured while being raped multiple times. Why aren’t macron and anyone else calling for Ukraine to cede land talking about this..and the other war crimes??!!

[highplainsdem]

16. I'm both baffled and disgusted by Macron's statements.

[PortTack]

18. Me too! Their history with Hitler is pretty awful..giving up a good portion of their country

Thank god for the French resistance. They like the Ukrainians would have and did fight to the death resisting the nazis

[Deuxcents]

6. Not one inch to Putin

The hell Ukraine has gone thru these past 100+ days says they mean to keep their country whole. And they should. Putin had no right to invade n to appease him will only enable him for more land grabs. Glory to Ukraine 🇺🇦

[highplainsdem]

17. +1,000,000

[Just A Box Of Rain]

7. Thank goodness we have a wise president who fully understands this

and is unwavering in his support for Ukraine.

Not one inch!

[erronis]

8. Thanks for this and for linking to TomConroy's earlier post.

Much slips by the radar if not repeated. And again.
https://democraticunderground.com/100216765568

[Lonestarblue]

10. I agree. Putin needs to be fought with every weapon we can send to Ukraine.

I would go further. It’s time for NATO to step up and support every Ukrainian effort with planes and whatever weapons are necessary to end this war. It is inhumane to force Ukraine to keep defending its territory while citizens are being murdered by the thousands for no good reason.

I think Biden has done an amazing job of pulling NATO leaders together (especially after Trump tried to alienate every one of them), but I disagree with him on the latest condition that Ukraine cannot use the missiles being sent to target Russia. Why not? Russia is blasting the hell out of Ukraine, some of it from within Russian space, but they’re not allowed to try to take out the source of the missile launches because they’re IN Russia! I hope Ukraine ignores this condition. Russia attacked them—and if they want to launch an attack against the Russian Army in Russian territory, do it. Russia is the illegitimate player here, not Ukraine.

[LoisB]

11. Agree.

[sarcasmo]

12. I'm looking at you Kissinger.

[SMoss]

13. Flying Tiders

The US needs to organize an all volunteer squadron of qualified A10 pilots with donated planes on the model of the WWII Flying Tigers for service in Ukraine. The AF wants to get rid of them.