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Originally Posted by CroFlames
Exactly, 2014. The point is that Harper was not one of the world leaders that laid down when most others were laying down and appeasing Putin. And now we're here.
The strong condemnation and response we see now should have been just as robust in 2014.
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Unfortunately the Ukrainian military in 2014 was not in the state it was in 2022 and plagued with corruption/Russian collaborators. When the Little Green Men hit Crimea, AFU folded rather quickly and couldn't have put up much of a fight. Ukraine had 8 years to train their forces, modernize, and battle harden their military staff for Putin's second attempt. If we had sent arms to Ukraine 2014, the Russians would have just captured the lot of it.
Starting coordinated economic sanctions against Russia back in 2014 would have been a good idea tho.