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

Tue Jan 25 21:08:37 UTC 2022

I'm not denigrating being concerned about what the U.S. is doing in
Ukraine. I'm denigrating the scaremongering about "World War 3." That's
nonsense. It's not how the U.S. behaves. It's not how Russia behaves. Proxy
war is not the same thing as direct war. That doesn't mean that proxy war
is ok. Proxy war is not ok. Proxy war is monstrous. It has
destroyed country after country. But it's not a threat to Americans, which
is why they do it and mostly get away with it. We should be honest about
this. We should tell the truth about this. Lying about it isn't going to
improve anything. You can temporarily get people excited. But you can't
sustain activism like this. Nobody will stick with concern about Ukraine
once they cut a deal and it's out of the headlines. It's ephemeral. It's a
Shiny Object. It's not building anything. It's not doing anything about the
big harms that U.S. foreign policy is causing. Millions of human beings on
the brink of starvation in Yemen. Millions of human beings on the brink of
starvation in Afghanistan. What is Ukraine compared to that? It's a
nothingburger. How does jumping up and down about Ukraine help with that?
It doesn't help with that. It doesn't do anything.

Look at Syria. The U.S. was happy to mess around in Syria, promote
sectarian civil war to undermine the regime. But when the Russians
intervened directly, the U.S. said: "Oh, ok." They weren't going to fight
Russia over Syria.

They are not going to fight the Russians over Ukraine.

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 2:24 PM karen aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Robert,
>
> You’re right about Yemen, it’s a terrible situation, one which was created
> in 2015 by the Obama Administration, along with the destruction of Libya
> and Syria.
>
> That doesn’t negate what is taking place in Ukraine on the borders of
> Russia, which began during the Reagan Administration, became obvious during
> the Obama Administration, and now has us on the verge of WW3.
>
> For those so certain the US isn’t insane, and won’t go to war with Russia,
> you need to recognize the USG uses proxy’s and having Ukraine destroyed in
> a proxy war doesn’t bother them at all.
>
> The provocations of Russia by Nato is urging regime change for another
> Yeltsin, or force Russia to annex portions of Ukraine, the Donbass region
> specifically, which could result in war with the potential for WW3.
>
> When experts on "foreign policy" are even more concerned now than ever
> over this issue, denigrating those in this community showing the same
> concern, is insulting.
>
> So here, be my guest, and educate yourself:
>
> I have more articles if anyone is interested.
>
> https://popularresistance.org/ukraine-crisis-us-toolboxes-are-empty/
>
> https://raymcgovern.com/.../perfidious-albion-giving.../
> <https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fraymcgovern.com%2F2022%2F01%2F23%2Fperfidious-albion-giving-grist-to-nyt%2F%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR2ILirkN93s1nZcckTPemRbTBXvU3f5SLJo-PcQDrpprE2lRdhGMFqqvtA&h=AT3KLz-SU_m0WuubsmLju_TtI0y67N02zQD8KrotYF56k4liIQmfme8fNHrZ_E-DznBsr42QA4nEUmCdNjfM5aO_g7VUtdSFSJX5aLo8EuTZixwIBZH-PdQO0NRb6QwQ7pStJmk&__tn__=-UK-R&c[0]=AT3I2vkorbr6_pGXS0Avxt-MWOiY2nDtm4mvshP_InAS7XQW3hdvFKbYT6urDmFDsLtrnCaPoIWGozg2lf_UemxZBDRejHaHUGaD0UuGOU2s5sBob0KtT0gNytd5VSszFXMSD2ANnmdrVU6urm9iW7fflNfwlc9JWU8E-6nIEeCI49Cg8jZ5_IG6iuNQSHuHPBh0sX10MVqUJwd7G8Tw>
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkYgXQo2aQs
>
>
> https://www.rt.com/shows/news-on-rt-america/547244-head-of-german-navy-forced/
>
>
> https://www.rt.com/shows/news-on-rt-america/546815-ben-norton-americans-dont-want/
>
>
>
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2022, at 11:19 AM, Robert Naiman via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>
> 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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