Unity and hope

There’s been encouraging news coming out of Ukraine and around the world the last couple of days. The Russian invasion has been repelled and Ukraine’s defense has surprised many in holding up. The country has rallied around to fight the invading force.

Around the rest of the world, country after country have banded together to impose sanctions on Russia and provide support to the Ukrainian defense. These sanctions will be crippling to the Russian economy.

Even both Democrats and Republicans in the United States have largely put aside their differences to unify against Putin.

Putin has truly done something special… he has unified the United States and the whole free world against him.

For the first time since the invasion began, I’ve started to have hope that this act of war will lead to a peaceful ending with Putin being stripped of power. We’re not in the clear yet. There is a lot of hurt and suffering that will happen before things are over.

The breadth of the Russian sanctions will cripple the Russian economy and have ripple effects throughout the entire world as well. I hope this pain is short lived… the Russian people didn’t want Putin’s war.

I have no idea how the rest of the war will play out. The Ukrainians are still outnumbered. Putin is still a loose cannon that has threatened nuclear war. But with unity, there is hope. For once in a long while, the United States and our allies are unified against a common enemy. That’s a dangerous prospect for those who oppose freedom.