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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you Stuart, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">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. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is the most serious issue today, more dangerous even than the "Cuban Missile Crisis," according to some, with the potential for WW3.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Karen Aram<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jan 25, 2022, at 8:03 AM, Stuart Levy via Peace <<a href="mailto:peace@lists.chambana.net" class="">peace@lists.chambana.net</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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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.<br class="">
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US politicians across the spectrum are expressing their "support"
for Ukraine, and the US media have been preparing us for war.<br class="">
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At <b class="">3PM Central Time </b>today, Jan. 25th, <b class="">CODE PINK will
hold an emergency webinar:<br class="">
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<blockquote class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><a href="https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144" class="">Click
Here to sign up for the webinar -- www.codepink.org/092522</a></b></font></blockquote>
<blockquote class=""><b class="">Join an emergency webinar discussion between
CODEPINK'S Medea Benjamin and retired Army Colonel Larry
Wilkerson today at 3:00 PM Central time. </b>Larry Wilkerson is
a professor at the College of William & Mary and was chief of
staff to U.S Secretary of State Colin Powell. <b class="">After ending his
military career, Wilkerson publicly criticized the Iraq War</b>
and has been a vocal opponent of U.S. policies that put militarism
before diplomacy. <br class="">
<br class="">
<i class=""><b class=""><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144" class="">RSVP
FOR THE WEBINAR HERE!</a></b></i><i class=""><b class=""><br class="">
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<b class="">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.</b> 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, <b class="">including
a guarantee that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO.</b><br class="">
<br class="">
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. <br class="">
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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. <b class="">They have supplied
powerful weapons, which Ukraine has deployed and used in Eastern
Ukraine. </b><b class=""><br class="">
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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. <b class="">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. <br class="">
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</b><p class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class="">Rather than NATO dissolving
with
the Warsaw Pact, as it should have done, it has violated</span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""> the agreements that brought the
original
Cold War to an end and reunified Germany. Instead of keeping
its
promise not to expand eastward, it</span><span style="font-weight:
400;" class=""> has added 11 member countries that were once either
Soviet
republics or members of the Warsaw Pact. </span></p><p class=""><strong class="">Now the situation is teetering on the brink of a
massive
war. The time to speak out is now! </strong></p><p class=""><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""><a style="color: #cc0099;" href="https://www.codepink.org/092522?recruiter_id=428144" moz-do-not-send="true" class=""><span style="color:
#cc0099;" class=""><strong class="">Join
the webinar</strong></span></a> on the crisis in Ukraine</span><span style="font-weight: 400;" class=""> and </span><span style="color:
#cc0099;" class=""><strong class=""><a style="color: #cc0099;" href="https://www.codepink.org/ukraine_congress?e=38045e0b248b322e5a3a8b9d6b8774fb&utm_source=codepink&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ukraine_emergency_3&n=11" class="">tell
Congress not to let Biden send troops to Eastern
Europe!</a></strong></span></p><p class="">Towards peace,<strong class=""><em class=""><br class="">
</em></strong><strong class=""><em class="">Medea and
the entire CODEPINK team:<span class=""> </span></em><em class="">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<br class="">
</em></strong></p>
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