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Russia just launched another staggering aerial assault on Ukraine — roughly 580 attack drones and about 40 missiles pummeled cities and infrastructure on September 20, 2025, killing at least three people and wounding dozens more. Ukrainian air defenses managed to intercept the vast majority, but the scale and brazenness of the barrage make clear this is a sustained campaign of terror, not isolated strikes.
Worse, this latest onslaught came on the eve of high-stakes diplomacy, as Kyiv prepares to press its case with Western leaders and seek meetings with former President Trump in New York and at international forums. Russia’s timing is not accidental — it’s a signal to the world that Moscow will keep using crude, massed attacks to intimidate and extract concessions unless it is met with decisive resistance.
Retired Gen. Jack Keane — a straight-talking military man who isn’t afraid to call reality as he sees it — appeared on Fox to break down the military and political fallout, warning that any rush to diplomacy without leverage plays into Putin’s hands. Keane has repeatedly cautioned that the U.S. must insist on real guarantees and not be stampeded into handing Russia legitimacy for its brutality. The American people should listen to that counsel rather than the appeasers who always say talk first, strength later.
This moment exposes a basic truth conservatives have been saying for years: peace without strength is surrender dressed up as diplomacy. If Europe and Washington expect Russia to stop terrorizing cities, they must be willing to choke off the funding and resources that make these drone swarms possible and give Kyiv the air defenses to blunt them. Ukrainian pleas for more weapons and sanctions are understandable, but those requests must be matched by an insistence that allies shoulder their share and not leave America to bankroll Europe’s security theater.
President Trump has signaled a willingness to push for peace talks, and that is promising — but any American-led initiative must be built from a position of unmistakable strength and leverage, not from capitulation or moral equivocation. If the U.S. shows resolve — tightening sanctions, targeting Russian oil revenues, and making clear that concessions will not be granted until aggression stops — then diplomacy can be meaningful. Anything less simply rewards bloodshed and hands Putin another instrument of intimidation.
Hardworking Americans should demand a clear, common-sense policy: back Ukraine with what it needs to survive, hold our NATO partners accountable to pay and act, and bring Russia to the negotiating table from weakness, not from victory. This fight is about more than land or geopolitics; it’s about whether civilized nations will allow a thug to rewrite rules by terror. Stand with strength, with resolve, and with a refusal to let evil become the new normal.
