Shaking their heads lips set in hard lines, a lot of people growl, Don’t send another penny to Ukraine – Ukraine doesn’t matter to us.

But take a look back at the past: First, Putin invaded the Republic of Georgia, then Crimea, then Donbas, then Ukraine. And to get what he wants he’s joined arms with dictators from China, Iran.

A dictator invading a small weak country’s an old story: Hitler marched into Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia, Poland as Americans, shaking their heads, said, ‘That doesn’t matter to us.’ His alliance with Japan and Mussolini landed us in World War II.

Cut from the same bolt of cloth, hurling tanks and missiles, Putin’s invaded four countries – and if he gets want he wants he won’t stop.