 U.S. Senator warns, if we don't stop Putin, American boys and girls will have to fight in Europe. U.S. Republican Senator Pete Ricketts has stated that the United States and its allies must help Ukraine stop Russian President Vladimir Putin, because otherwise, the United States will have to pay a much higher price. Ricketts drew a comparison between Putin and Hitler, pointing out that the Kremlin leader has taken on the mantle of Peter the Great, is nostalgic for the Russian Empire and employs arguments reminiscent of Hitler's about Germans living outside of Germany when talking about the need to protect Russians living outside of Russia. But if Putin is successful in Ukraine and then he decides to invade the Baltic states, that's World War 3, and then your son will be fighting in Europe, Ricketts said. The senator emphasized that millions of victims of World War 2 could have been saved if the world had taken Hitler's words seriously from the beginning. Therefore, the allied countries should now realize the reality of Putin's threats, Ricketts emphasized. That's the message, I think, we need to get out to Americans to say, hey, look, this is our best interest. Yes, we're helping out Ukraine, but this is to make sure that our boys and young women don't end up fighting in a war again in Europe. We're trying to avoid that, Ricketts concluded.