[Peace-discuss] 3pm today: "EMERGENCY: Is the US going to war with Russia over Ukraine?" Code Pink webinar

Tue Jan 25 17:19:33 UTC 2022

If you believe that the United States is going to war with Russia over
Ukraine, please raise your hand.

This is not how the U.S. Empire works. Did the U.S. go to war with Russia
over Syria? If the U.S. wasn't willing to go to war with Russia over Syria,
why would the U.S. be willing to go to war with Russia over Ukraine? This
is all Blob hype in the media to pressure Biden to be more aggressive. But
whatever Biden does, it's not going to be war with Russia. Biden is not
insane. They'll send some more military stuff, they'll deploy a few
thousand more troops to NATO countries in Eastern Europe, they'll impose
more economic sanctions on Russia, though not any that would badly hurt the
German economy, which means that they're not going to get carried away.

Do you remember in grade school, when they said: "Pick on someone your own
size"? That's something the U.S. Empire NEVER does. Reagan talked tough on
the Soviet Union. Then he invaded Grenada, a country the size of
Champaign-Urbana.

Here's why this matters. There is an "emergency" Codepink webinar today at
8pm ET on the U.S.-Saudi war-blockade-famine-genocide in Yemen. How
many people are going to go to both? Which is the real emergency, the Blob
media hype that can never result in a war with Russia because the people
running the U.S. are not insane, or Yemeni children starving to death
because the U.S. is helping the Saudi regime blockade Yemen, in violation
of Article I of the U.S. Constitution and the War Powers Resolution of
1973?

Here is the real emergency Codepink webinar today for the people who don't
want to chase Shiny Objects in the Blob-dominated U.S. media:

"Please join CODEPINK for #YemenCan'tWait Emergency On-Line Action with a
briefing from Yemenis.
Tues., Jan. 25, 5 PM (PT), 8 PM (ET)
RSVP HERE. <https://www.codepink.org/yemenemergencyaction>
The Saudi-UAE coalition recently attacked Yemen's communication
infrastructure, leaving all of Yemen without connection to the internet.
Initial reports of Saudi-led strikes have high civilian casualties. People
in the U.S. need to take action now. Join us on January 25 at 8PM ET to
engage on social media and call our members of Congress. Attendees will be
briefed on the situation on the ground at the beginning & given all the
tools and language for taking action. Please RSVP and invite friends. We
need all hands on deck."

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:04 AM Stuart Levy via Peace-discuss <
peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Biden has just ordered 8500 US troops to be on alert for possible
> deployment to Eastern Europe... "lethal aid" has already been delivered to
> Ukraine.
>
> US politicians across the spectrum are expressing their "support" for
> Ukraine, and the US media have been preparing us for war.
>
> At *3PM Central Time *today, Jan. 25th,
>
> *CODE PINK will hold an emergency webinar: *
>
> *Click Here to sign up for the webinar -- www.codepink.org/092522
> <https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144>*
>
> *Join an emergency webinar discussion between CODEPINK'S Medea Benjamin
> and retired Army Colonel Larry Wilkerson today at 3:00 PM Central time. *Larry
> Wilkerson is a professor at the College of William & Mary and was chief of
> staff to U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell. *After ending his military
> career, Wilkerson publicly criticized the Iraq War* and has been a vocal
> opponent of U.S. policies that put militarism before diplomacy.
>
> *RSVP FOR THE WEBINAR HERE!
> <https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144>*
>
> *The U.S. and NATO, whose Response Force is composed of some 40,000
> international troops, are exacerbating a conflict that could easily result
> in war between the world’s two most heavily armed nuclear states – the
> United States and Russia.* We must immediately demand that NATO, the
> U.S., Russia and Ukraine pursue vigorous diplomacy for a negotiated
> solution. There is every reason to believe that a compromise can be made
> with Russia, *including a guarantee that Ukraine will not become a member
> of NATO.*
>
> RSVP for today’s webinar and send a message to your representatives in
> Congress, telling them to pressure Biden not to go to war with Russia over
> Ukraine. Tell Congress that you want negotiations, not escalation.
>
> Since 2015, the Minsk II Accord has successfully prevented a new
> escalation of the civil war in Ukraine. But the United States and NATO have
> encouraged the Ukrainian government to ignore its obligations under Minsk
> II, and to instead reassert absolute sovereignty over the Donbas region. *They
> have supplied powerful weapons, which Ukraine has deployed and used in
> Eastern Ukraine. *
>
> Russia has always been opposed to NATO’s eastern expansion to its borders,
> and it is determined to stop Ukraine from entering NATO. In 2008, when
> Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko first applied for NATO membership,
> President Putin called Ukrainian membership "a direct threat" to Russia.
>
> *NATO is a military alliance that should have dissolved with the
> dissolution of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. It should certainly
> not be expanding to include Ukraine. *
>
> Rather than NATO dissolving with the Warsaw Pact, as it should have done,
> it has violated the agreements that brought the original Cold War to an
> end and reunified Germany. Instead of keeping its promise not to expand
> eastward, it has added 11 member countries that were once either Soviet
> republics or members of the Warsaw Pact.
>
> *Now the situation is teetering on the brink of a massive war. The time to
> speak out is now! *
>
> *Join the webinar* <https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144>
> on the crisis in Ukraine and *tell Congress not to let Biden send troops
> to Eastern Europe!
> <https://www.codepink.org/ukraine_congress?e=38045e0b248b322e5a3a8b9d6b8774fb&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ukraine_emergency_3&n=11>*
>
> Towards peace,
>
> *Medea and the entire CODEPINK team: Alice, Allison, Ann, Ariel, Carley,
> Danaka, Emily, Farida, Jodie, Justina, Kelly, Lauren, Leonardo, Madison,
> Marcy, Marissa, Mark, Michelle, Nancy, Olivia, Paki, Teri, Shea, and Suzie *
>
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