Opinion: I won the Nobel Peace Prize. Now I’m asking the US to send missiles to Ukraine.
Authoritarian leaders such as Vladimir Putin are deliberately subverting rights and working to create a world devoid of freedom.
Oleksandra Matviichuk, Opinion Contributor
When I started my career as a human rights lawyer, I never imagined one day that I would publicly say we need weapons and missiles to protect human rights.
However, I have found since the unprovoked Russian invasion of my country that you cannot wave the Geneva Conventions in front of a Russian tank. You cannot use the United Nations Charter to stop the raping and kidnapping. You cannot defeat evil without bravery to resist it.
Global freedom and human rights are under attack, and Ukraine is the front line to protecting democracies and civil liberties across the globe. The world’s democratic countries must work together to counter increasing aggression from authoritarian regimes hellbent on suppressing freedom.