To the Editor:
Re “At House and Overseas, Mourning Lives Misplaced Over Three Lengthy Years” (information article, Feb. 25):
Feb. 24 marked the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. I’m impressed by, and my coronary heart breaks for, the courageous and noble Ukrainians. I want my president have been extra like President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Alison Ford
Ossining, N.Y.
To the Editor:
Re “Dueling U.N. Resolutions on Ukraine Spotlight Fissures Between the U.S. and Europe” (information article, Feb. 25):
If the US’ becoming a member of Russia to vote towards a United Nations decision to sentence Russia’s conflict towards Ukraine isn’t giving help and luxury to our enemy, I don’t know what’s. Disgrace on us all.
Eileen Mitchell
Lewes, Del.
To the Editor:
Republicans, traditionally the occasion for a powerful U.S. overseas coverage and an understanding of who our democratic allies are, now stay silent.
As President Trump embraces Vladimir Putin, extensively suspected of being a killer of political rivals and journalists, and calls President Volodymyr Zelensky a dictator, our Republican senators and representatives ought to perceive that their silence is greater than acquiescence.
It ought to be construed as supporting our present path. So when issues go mistaken, as they inevitably do if you lower offers with unhealthy actors, don’t you dare fake you weren’t part of this abhorrent change in path in U.S. coverage.
Steve Reich
Brief Hills, N.J.
To the Editor:
Re “Ukraine Nears a Deal to Give U.S. a Share of Its Mineral Wealth” (information article, nytimes.com, Feb. 24):
I wish to register my objection to the US’ “mineral rights” demand to Ukraine. Additional, any treaty granting our nation such rights have to be permitted by Congress, which I hope will present a shred of dignity and be sure that it at the very least provides Ukraine safety and sovereignty in return.
Demanding outsized funds from sovereign nations in return for tepid U.S. navy, financial and ethical help is totally un-American. It harkens again to the darkish days of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when European powers carved up Africa amongst themselves, sowing the seeds of a century of battle and struggling on the continent.
I’ve by no means felt so ashamed to be American as I do within the face of the present president’s abrupt and illogical betrayal of Ukraine.
Christopher Rizzo
New York
The author is an environmental lawyer.
To the Editor:
Re “Rubio’s Dilemma because the Secretary of State: Arranging a Deal With ‘Bloodthirsty’ Putin” (information article, Feb. 24):
The 180-degree turnabout by Secretary of State Marco Rubio regarding Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine is attribute of what number of others within the Trump administration have completely modified their positions to placate the president.
It’s comprehensible and infrequently commendable to vary one’s views based mostly on new developments, information or insights. However these persons are present process a metamorphosis of their ideology and ideas for rank political functions.
Republicans used to have a time period for that: flip-flopping.
Marshall H. Tanick
Minneapolis
To the Editor:
Re “Trump’s Actions Are a Victory for Putin” (editorial, Feb. 23):
What long-held Republican values will as we speak’s Republicans battle for?
Dedication to allies, to NATO, to the sovereignty of nationwide boundaries? Particular person freedom, the primacy of the regulation and the strict building of the Structure? The steadiness of markets and methods, free markets and commerce? The separation of coequal branches of presidency? I don’t know.
What can modern-day Republicans provide to voters aside from the promise “I’m with him and I’ll do no matter he asks or says”? Are there any firmly held ideas that Republicans preserve? Which can be their North Star?
John E. Colbert
Arroyo Seco, N.M.
To the Editor:
Anybody who cozies as much as Vladimir Putin and makes use of Mr. Putin’s personal disinformation propaganda accountable Volodymyr Zelensky for a brutal conflict that all of us witnessed Mr. Putin begin just isn’t match for workplace. Interval.
Leslie Turpin
Westminster West, Vt.
Recommendation for Democrats: ‘Go House and Pay attention’
To the Editor:
Re “Democrats Fear They Are Lacking the Second to Remake the Get together” (information article, Feb. 19):
To the Democratic Get together leaders who’re struggling to map out their occasion’s future, right here’s a humble suggestion: Go residence and pay attention.
Since congressional Republicans apparently neither need nor want your votes in the meanwhile, simply go away (as in vacate) Washington for 2 to a few weeks and meet with as many individuals in your states and districts as potential.
Don’t take polls; don’t maintain rallies; don’t make speeches. Take your employees, actively pay attention and take a number of notes. Present up in venues giant and small: colleges, church buildings, supermarkets, bars, eating places, comfort shops.
Meet people as they’re, the place they’re, 12 to fifteen hours a day, as in case you have been campaigning — however don’t marketing campaign! Convey nothing however care, real curiosity and honest empathy.
Above all, droop your present barrage of textual content and e-mail requests for funds. Then return to plotting the occasion’s future path, based mostly not on what you wish to hear or think about you’ve heard, however on what folks have really mentioned.
William Kumbier
East Lansing, Mich.
Lab Discoveries Misplaced
To the Editor:
Re “Trump’s Layoffs Goal Gifted Younger Scientists” (information article, Feb. 18):
I worry that President Trump’s gutting of the Nationwide Institutes of Well being might have horrible ripple results past the lack of promising younger scientific expertise.
If packages coaching new biomedical scientists usually are not restored, the time would possibly come when no one alive will even have the ability to perceive essential cutting-edge analysis papers generated throughout the pre-Trump period. In that case, lifesaving scientific functions of misplaced laboratory discoveries won’t ever be developed.
Donald Mender
Rhinebeck, N.Y.
The author is a former assistant scientific professor of psychiatry at Yale College College of Medication.
Purchase Again Pennies and Nickels
To the Editor:
Re “Does It Make Sense to Cease Minting Pennies?” (The Upshot, Feb. 23):
I’m wondering if there’s a non permanent different to completely ceasing manufacturing of those cash. Why not cease minting pennies and nickels for one yr, and easily purchase the hordes of those cash sitting in jars and sock drawers again from shoppers at a fraction over face worth: pennies at 1.25 cents and nickels at 6 cents every?
You mechanically liberate billions of saved cash and save the U.S. Mint a bundle of actual cash within the course of.
John M. Maeglin
Northbrook, Unwell.
Re-evaluating Films
To the Editor:
Re “‘American Magnificence,’ an Oscar Winner, Hasn’t Aged Effectively” (Arts, Feb. 22):
Can we cease re-evaluating films as soon as they’ve grow to be indifferent from their historic interval? If “American Magnificence” is diminished as a result of it’s not 1999, then by that yardstick maybe we should always cease making films in any respect, since, crystal balls however, they may at some point be irrelevant.
Douglas Soesbe
Palm Springs, Calif.
