Easingsanctions on Russia only helps fund Putins killing machine

Earlier this month, a Russian missile slammed into a housing complex in Pryluky, a Ukrainian city of no strategic value, far from the eastern front lines.Thirty apartments were destroyed.

Twenty-two people were killed.Five were children.Three of those children were 1 year old.There is no “both sides” in Russia’s assault on Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin started this war; Volodymyr Zelensky is simply fighting for the survival of his people.Ukraine targets troops and drone-supply warehouses.

Russia aims at civilians.Ukraine strikes oil refineries that fuel Putin’s army and fund his invasion.

Russia hits power plants in an effort to freeze women and children.History will judge harshly an American administration that enables this horror.Yet that’s exactly what President Trump is doing by shelving the sanctions against Russia pushed by Lindsey Graham, and passed in his honor after his death. The United States now aids the war machine killing 1-year-old children.There’s no logical reason for doing this.Analysts say the waiver and diesel deal will do little to lower fuel costs.

If it’s meant as a token of goodwill to Putin to push a peace deal, history has shown that concessions only embolden him.We understand that Trump wants the war to end, but pressure on Putin, not cash, is the only way to do so.The Russian dictator pushes the narrative that Ukraine’s defeat is inevitable.

He’s been saying that for nearly 5 years.His army has barely moved.

This summer, Ukraine’s Operation Vivaldi reclaimed 107 square miles.More than 450,000 Russian troops have died because of a madman’s folly.So instead, Putin murders civilians, in hope of breaking Ukraine’s spirit.

Will lifting sanctions make him stop? He’ll just use the money to buy more drones.The killing will go on and on and on.And what does Putin offer our peace envoys? Mystical economic deals in exchange for handing over huge swaths of fortified Ukraine.

All while he stabs us in the back by supplying...