What Israel and the West Can Learn From Ukraine

Thank you, Apollo Zeus for the super sticker.

And thank you, Gail, for the super sticker.

Jonathan.

Well, what a great treasure to have Stasi here to tell us about her experience and all of her experiences, you know, growing up in that region and, you know, how she identified and who she identified with.

It's really quite fascinating.

And, you know, I've never been to the region, but, you know, at the end of the day here, from a Westerner's perspective, from an American's perspective, you know, Russia marched unprovoked into Ukraine to conquer territory, to conquer land.

And that is unacceptable.

And the fact that Putin's popularity, at least on paper, remains so high reminds me of that famous quote that was given to Ayn Rand at her ghetto, at her leaving part, when she left in the mid-1920s, Someone said to her in Russia, tell them in America that Russia is a huge cemetery and we are all dying slowly.

I feel like that's still the case.

You know, if Russia is permitted to keep one acre of Ukrainian territory at the end of all of this, I think it is a terrible affront to free people.

all over the world.

And, you know, Ms. Rand has that great line where she says, like, you know, if you compromise with the thief and just give him one silver teaspoon, you've given up the whole premise.

And by, you know, I would love to see the West get much more firmly behind extricating Russia.

Russia from all of the land that they occupy and compensating Ukraine with reparations for all the commotion and destruction they've caused.

That would be justice in my opinion.

Yeah, I agree.

And yeah, if, you know, if the West was fully behind, you know, I remember the early days of this special military operation.

I keep having to look at my notes and remind myself that Russia officially isn't calling it a war for all sorts of reasons regarding Russian law and conscription and stuff.

But yeah, you know, when we look at those early days, the West...

Even the support that Ukraine is getting now, it took a few days because the West, including European countries, sat back a little bit and said, OK, is this going to be over in a few days? And then we're going to get in trouble if we intervene.

And then they saw Ukraine really standing up for itself.

The tanks that were expected to march in discovered that Ukraine prepared.

prepared on the roads for that scenario.

And only then did the West really start supporting in any meaningful way.

But yeah, it was still insufficient.

Thank you, Apollo Zeus for the super sticker.

And thank you, Gail, for the super sticker.

Jonathan.

Well, what a great treasure to have Stasi here to tell us about her experience and all of her experiences, you know, growing up in that region and, you know, how she identified and who she identified with.

It's really quite fascinating.

And, you know, I've never been to the region, but, you know, at the end of the day here, from a Westerner's perspective, from an American's perspective, you know, Russia marched unprovoked into Ukraine to conquer territory, to conquer land.

And that is unacceptable.

And the fact that Putin's popularity, at least on paper, remains so high reminds me of that famous quote that was given to Ayn Rand at her ghetto, at her leaving part, when she left in the mid-1920s, Someone said to her in Russia, tell them in America that Russia is a huge cemetery and we are all dying slowly.

I feel like that's still the case.

You know, if Russia is permitted to keep one acre of Ukrainian territory at the end of all of this, I think it is a terrible affront to free people.

all over the world.

And, you know, Ms. Rand has that great line where she says, like, you know, if you compromise with the thief and just give him one silver teaspoon, you've given up the whole premise.

And by, you know, I would love to see the West get much more firmly behind extricating Russia.

Russia from all of the land that they occupy and compensating Ukraine with reparations for all the commotion and destruction they've caused.

That would be justice in my opinion.

Yeah, I agree.

And yeah, if, you know, if the West was fully behind, you know, I remember the early days of this special military operation.

I keep having to look at my notes and remind myself that Russia officially isn't calling it a war for all sorts of reasons regarding Russian law and conscription and stuff.

But yeah, you know, when we look at those early days, the West...

Even the support that Ukraine is getting now, it took a few days because the West, including European countries, sat back a little bit and said, OK, is this going to be over in a few days? And then we're going to get in trouble if we intervene.

And then they saw Ukraine really standing up for itself.

The tanks that were expected to march in discovered that Ukraine prepared.

prepared on the roads for that scenario.

And only then did the West really start supporting in any meaningful way.

But yeah, it was still insufficient.