'There is no military solution short of economic ruin, global famine, climate catastrophe–or worse, nuclear Armageddon.'
, four times the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency during an existential climate crisis of wildfires, droughts, storms and rising sea levels.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer do not make it easy for Democrats to break ranks–as the Republicans are doing ahead of the midterms–on the question of weapons for Ukraine. Pelosi and Schumer embed humanitarian aid and military dollars in the same legislation, making it hard for progressive Democrats to join with the, among them hard-core Trumpers Marjorie Taylor Greene , Lauren Boebert , Jim Jordan , who voted against previous Ukraine packages.
In addition to the expansion of NATO, organizations in the Peace in Ukraine Coalition cite other provocations: US support for a 2014 coup of Ukraine's democratically elected Russia-friendly President and years of US arms shipments–from Presidents Obama to Trump to Biden–to undermine the 2015 MINSK II peace agreement. That accord signed by Russia and Ukraine was to end the civil war that followed the 2014 coup and left an estimated 14,000 people dead in Ukraine's industrial Donbas region.
Milwaukee anti-war activists, including a county supervisor, took their peace flags and"Diplomacy, Not War" signs to the campus of conservative Marquette University, where they passed out hundreds of flyers with QR codes for students to email their Congress members for a ceasefire.
Veterans for Peace members in the Bay Area wrote to Democratic reps Mark Desaulinier and Barbara Lee , the lone vote against the US invasion of Afghanistan and sponsor of legislation to cut the Pentagon budget by $350 billion."We urge you to forcefully call for negotiations and speak out against Secretary of Defense Austin's call for continuing the war to 'weaken Russia.' That is a recipe for a world war if ever there was one," read the letters.
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