Now Former U.S. Generals Are Calling For a No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine, and That’s Terrifying.

The pressure on Biden is intensifying.

Lauren Elizabeth
4 min readMar 20, 2022
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The war in Ukraine has been absolutely devastating to say the least, and the situation only grows more dire as Putin continues to grow more desperate in the midst of a conflict that’s undoubtedly taking much longer than he expected. The city of Mariupol is experiencing relentless air strikes, theaters acting as shelters are being leveled, hospitals are being bombed, and now schools acting as a shelters for 400 people are being reduced to rubble. While it’s difficult to determine the exact number of civilians who have been killed, the number is certainly in the thousands.

As the toll on Ukrainian civilians grows worse, calls for the United States to sign off on a no-fly zone over the country continue to be brought up by not only Ukrainian officials like President Zelenskyy, but now by former U.S. Generals as well.

Scrolling through Facebook I stumbled across an opinion article published by The Hill, entitled: Enough is enough, it’s time for ‘plan b’ to counter Putin.

The article says:

“…We should deploy the U.S. Air Force — and hopefully those of our allies — over Ukraine to stop the killing and enforce Russia’s withdrawal by…

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Lauren Elizabeth
Lauren Elizabeth

Written by Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx

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