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

Tue Jan 25 17:08:05 UTC 2022

I do always see your posts on the Peace list, Karen; though as you say,
seldom those of anyone else.  Perhaps because others aren't posting?

Maybe other folks aren't posting because they're tired, and feel a sense of
futility.  AWARE has been around since at least 2001.  Since 9/11, since
the wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria.  Years were spent picketing against
these wars in various places around C-U.  Somewhat surprisingly, it seems
that we've had absolutely no impact on American foreign policy!  The
buildup to war is always exactly the same, and now we just sort of watch it
happen, knowing full well what is going to happen.

I don't think things are ever quite as simple as you seem to want to make
them, and of course that's part of the problem.  I feel like we're in the
midst of a crowd of toddlers, where everyone - America, Russia, China,
North Korea, anyone who is even remotely involved - says, "I'm GOOD!!  HE
is BAD!!  It's all HIS fault!!"  They're all children to me, children with
nuclear weapons.  We are children, too.  I have wearied of it.

John

On Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 9:27 AM karen aram via Peace <
peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:

> Thank you Stuart,
>
> I’ve been waiting for someone other than myself, to recognize the dangers
> inherent in what is taking place in Ukraine. I haven’t been posting on the
> Peace List given, I don’t know that my postings have been going through
> given I see almost no feedback nor postings from others. Even Facebook
> friends seem to not notice how critical this situation is with US nuclear
> missiles being spread across Eastern Europe, and Nato on the borders of
> Russia.
>
> I’m pleased to see "Code Pink,” currently the only anti-war group in the
> US showing concern, and now acting on the issue, as well as yourself.
>
> This is the most serious issue today, more dangerous even than the "Cuban
> Missile Crisis," according to some, with the potential for WW3.
>
> Karen Aram
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace <
> peace 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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