Democrat Congressional hopeful on "No Fly"
Says it is not the risk Biden says it is. It is worse standing by as civilians are killed, or about letting a dictator grow his empire through war."
I got this letter from Max Steiner who is running for Congress in my District 1 in California against Doug La Malfa a Republican who sided with the January 6 insurrection and voted against certifying the election. I’ve been supporting Steiner.
James Kelly,
There's been a lot of discussion over the past few days of implementing a No Fly Zone in Ukraine. Biden and LaMalfa are both opposed, staying that a No Fly Zone carries too great a risk of escalation to World War 3.
I disagree. A No Fly Zone has minimal escalatory risk, but it would save thousands of Ukrainian civilians and cripple Russian military power.
What do I mean by No Fly Zone? I mean deploying stealth aircraft to Ukrainian airspace to shoot down Russian aircraft on Ukrainian airspace. It means turning the sky above Ukraine into an air war zone between the US and Russia. It does not mean shooting Russian forces on the ground, or at Russian aircraft in Russia or Belarus. It would almost certainly lead to a small number of US cas…
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