To the Editor:
Re “At Home and Abroad, Mourning Lives Lost Over Three Long 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 Highlight Fissures Between the U.S. and Europe” (information article, Feb. 25):
If america’ becoming a member of Russia to vote in opposition to a United Nations decision to sentence Russia’s battle in opposition to Ukraine isn’t giving assist 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 robust U.S. international 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 must be construed as supporting our present path. So when issues go incorrect, as they inevitably do whenever you minimize offers with unhealthy actors, don’t you dare faux 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 need to register my objection to america’ “mineral rights” demand to Ukraine. Additional, any treaty granting our nation such rights have to be authorized by Congress, which I hope will present a shred of dignity and be certain 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. army, financial and ethical assist 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 as 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 sometimes commendable to alter one’s views based mostly on new developments, information or insights. However these individuals 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 combat 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 soundness of markets and methods, free markets and commerce? The separation of coequal branches of presidency? I don’t know.
What can modern-day Republicans supply 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 keep? 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 guilty Volodymyr Zelensky for a brutal battle that all of us witnessed Mr. Putin begin shouldn’t be match for workplace. Interval.
Leslie Turpin
Westminster West, Vt.
Recommendation for Democrats: ‘Go Dwelling and Pay attention’
To the Editor:
Re “Democrats Worry They Are Missing the Moment to Remake the Party” (information article, Feb. 19):
To the Democratic Celebration 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 plenty of notes. Present up in venues massive and small: faculties, church buildings, supermarkets, bars, eating places, comfort shops.
Meet people as they’re, the place they’re, 12 to fifteen hours a day, as if you happen to 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 need to hear or think about you’ve heard, however on what individuals have truly mentioned.
William Kumbier
East Lansing, Mich.
Lab Discoveries Misplaced
To the Editor:
Re “Trump’s Layoffs Target Talented Young Scientists” (information article, Feb. 18):
I concern 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 are usually not restored, the time would possibly come when no person alive will even be capable of perceive essential cutting-edge analysis papers generated through 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 Faculty of Drugs.
Purchase Again Pennies and Nickels
To the Editor:
Re “Does It Make Sense to Stop Minting Pennies?” (The Upshot, Feb. 23):
I ponder if there’s a short-term various 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 robotically 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 Beauty,’ an Oscar Winner, Hasn’t Aged Well” (Arts, Feb. 22):
Can we cease re-evaluating motion pictures 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 motion pictures in any respect, since, crystal balls however, they could at some point be irrelevant.
Douglas Soesbe
Palm Springs, Calif.
