Here`s how 'The Washington Post'`s editorial board puts it: 'Security, territorial integrity international law are buzzwords and abstractions. The United States has tried to position itself as a democracy which supports other democracies and the West against this Putin aggression, with self-governance, with territorial integrity. But, according to many, Putin is trying to rewrite the larger rules of the international order, longing for a period of prior Soviet supremacy, where big countries can just take over smaller ones, based on military might alone.
In other cities, citizens woke up to sirens blazing.Īccording to many, not just those in the neighboring region, not just those with traditional conflict against the Soviet Union here - against Russia, I should say. Ukrainians continue to scramble for safety, cameras capturing citizens bunkered in subway tunnels as one place to get a kind of a makeshift or automatic shelter underground, explosions heard around the capital.
MELBER: On the table there, President Biden speaking out.
