ACTION ALERT:
Tell Congress: No More $$$ for War in Ukraine;
Don’t Let Biden Plunge Us into a Nuclear War
CODEPINK et al.
(December 3, 2024) — The White House has gone mad!
Call your congressional reps (202-224-3121) to tell them we do not want WWIII with nuclear-armed Russia.
Not another $ for the war in Ukraine. Ceasefire. Negotiations, not escalation. Invest in human needs at home.
Meanwhile, President Biden wants another $24 billion for weapons, etc., for Ukraine, only days after approving the use of long-range US missiles for Ukraine to strike deep inside Russia.
House GOP leader Mike Johndon says he won’t bring Biden’s request for more weapons to the floor for a vote, at least not now — not before Trump takes office.
ACTION:
Tell Johnson’s office you agree — no more money to continue the war in Ukraine. Dial (202) 225-2777
Write your reps, as well. Here is a sample letter:
Hello, I’m ______________ in zip code ____________ in the state of ________________. I urge you in the strongest possible terms to demand the Biden administration support a ceasefire in Ukraine and stop sending weapons to escalate a war that could lead to nuclear annihilation.
President Biden’s approval of long-range weapons to strike inside Russia brings the world closer to the brink. Today, we urgently need a diplomatic resolution to the US proxy war in Ukraine, which has cost Ukraine and Russia hundreds of thousands of lost lives — and robbed working people in the United States of $170-billion in taxpayer dollars urgently needed to fund human needs at home.
Few may realize the US is now arming Ukraine’s Azov Battalion, long prohibited from receiving US weapons because of its history of human rights violations and neo-Nazi roots. With the Azov Battalion incorporated into the Ukrainian military, it’s anyone’s guess who will take possession of these weapons when the war ends.
Meanwhile, Germany prepares for war and rationing by 2029; France’s Macron suggests troops on the ground may be next; NATO’s chief insists on maintaining the current level of weapons funding, Russia practices tactical nuclear weapons drills on Ukraine’s border and the Ukrainian military conducts strikes at Russia’s nuclear early warning system.
Without an early warning system, a non-nuclear missile could be mistaken for a nuclear missile, prompting Russia to launch a nuclear weapon. Moreover, why would a military knock out another country’s early warning system unless a First Strike was on the table?
Bring us back from the brink.
Tell the Biden administration to negotiate a diplomatic solution to the war in Ukraine. Vote NO on the next request for more weapons for Ukraine and advocate for a ceasefire and diplomacy.
We denounce President Biden’s decision to approve long-range missile strikes — already underway — deep inside Russia. Biden’s reckless decision ignores Pentagon advice against such long-range strikes, thereby escalating tensions between the two most-nuclear-armed nations, US and Russia, to endanger the entire world.
In approving these strikes, the Biden White House chose to make the US a direct party to the Ukraine-Russia war, crossing a previous red line and causing Russia to lower the threshold on the use of nuclear weapons. Russia’s new nuclear doctrine allows for a nuclear response even to a conventional attack, if the nation responsible for the attack is supported by a nuclear power.
A lame duck President, Biden opts for last minute escalation to make it even more difficult for the incoming administration to broker a peaceful settlement.
Such a settlement could have been brokered a month after the February 2022 Russian invasion had Western powers not sabotaged the peace deal between Ukraine and Russia.
Moreover, think of the hundreds of thousands of lives that could have been saved had the US not provoked the Russian invasion with NATO expansion to Russia’s borders, expanding NATO from 12 countries at the end of WWII to now 32 countries in a nuclear alliance that surrounds Russia.
According to the polls, 70% of the US public surveyed wants a peaceful settlement that elevates diplomacy to end this unnecessary carnage and expenditure of US taxpayer dollars, now almost $200 billion for the war in Ukraine while urgent needs in the United States are ignored.
The Biden administration must listen to the will of the people — and Congress must intervene to make sure he does. For the sake of the people and the planet, it’s imperative the US reverse course on this homicidal path, call off the missiles and support an immediate ceasefire.
Diplomacy now!
