In an attempt to restore world order, Russia has gone rogue. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin has claimed his place in the historical past. Not since Hitler attacked the Soviet Union in 1941 has a European chief dedicated an act of aggression as brutal or as nakedly cynical as Mr. Putin’s totally unprovoked assault on Ukraine. He has made himself a world outlaw and turned the good nation of Russia into a rogue state.
This could be a prison struggle of premeditated and unjustified aggression, and Mr. Putin’s Western allies and enablers ought to, in all probability, testify with their legal professionals. The Nuremberg trials punished financial collaborators who enabled Hitler’s wars of aggression.