Arming Ukraine will stop Putin in his tracks
The Russian leader’s expansionist aims are clear. The west must act to help Kyiv to protect itself
Slickly turned-out lobbyists have urged me so often not to demonise Vladimir Putin that I reckon Satan himself must be running an account with one of London’s reputation-burnishing PR companies. However hard I try — the man, it must be conceded, loves his black labrador — I can find no redeeming virtue in the Kremlin chief. He is set on a blood-and-soil mission to purify his nation through conquest and annexation of a foreign country. There is a special place in Hell for people like that.
If only his invasion of Ukraine could be convincingly explained away as an act of cynical