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

[Stuart Levy]

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 violatedthe agreements that brought the original Cold
    War to an end and reunified Germany. Instead of keeping its promise
    not to expand eastward, ithas 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 Ukraineand *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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