The U.S. government must do whatever it can to help patriotic Ukranians free themselves from Vladimir Putin’s bear hug.

The U.S. government must do whatever it can to help patriotic Ukranians free themselves from Vladimir Putin’s bear hug. He will do whatever it takes to keep Ukraine within his sphere of influence. He has no political constraints on his actions. The Ukrainian people only want to live in a normal country with a normal economy, normal politics and a normal amount of corruption. I was part of a congressional program to provide technical assistance to the Ukranian Rada (parliament) after it became independent from the USSR. The staff of the parliament told us that government officials in Kiev were completely corrupt. It seems that little has changed over the past years. But now people are fed up and some are willing to risk their lives to change things. So we must partner with the EU an