Clusterbombs and Nuclear War?
What Is Biden Thinking?!
Marcy Winograd / CODEPINK
(December 6, 2024) — I don’t know who is running the show at the White House, but whoever is calling the shots needs a reality check.
Halfway out the door, President Biden or National Security Advisor Sullivan or Secretary of State Blinken — whichever Dr. Strangelove is in charge — approves Ukraine’s use of US ballistic missiles to strike deep inside Russia.
The last time I checked Russia had 5,580 nuclear warheads.
Upon hearing that Biden had approved ATACMS (pronounced “attack ’ems”), Russia lowered the threshold on the use of nuclear weapons to say that any nuclear power, like the US, that helps a non-nuclear power attack Russia could be obliterated. Biden is playing with fire, playing with our lives, and playing with the future of the planet!
This is not a movie. I wish it were. I wish I someone would tell me this was all a dream — no, it’s a possible nightmare, a nuclear catastrophe, with Russia now saying one possible target might be Poland. Poland has a US/NATO military base, capable of carrying nuclear weapons that just opened for business.
Still with me? It doesn’t get any better.
Now the White House is sending cluster bombs to Ukraine to supposedly stop the advance of Russian troops. Cluster bombs are internationally banned for their history of mutilating children and civilians decades after wars come to an end. Biden is leaving a decades-long legacy of death and violence behind him.
Two wounded Afghan children face a long recovery.
One misstep or accident by Ukraine, the US or Russia and we could all be history, but not if we act and demand Biden rethink his disastrous policy in his final days in office.
THE PETITION:
Tell Biden to stop arming Ukraine,
and call for diplomacy now!
To: The Entire Biden Administration
As peace-loving people, we urge you to support a ceasefire in Ukraine and stop further escalation in the Russia-Ukraine War that has left hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians dead or wounded.
We ask that you reverse your approval of long-range US missile strikes deep inside Russia. Russia’s leaders–in response to you crossing your own red line on long-range missiles–lowered the threshold for use of nuclear weapons. We also demand you stop sending cluster bombs and landmines that could extend the war decades past it’s end date.
We also ask you to stop endlessly approving weapons and bombs to Ukraine – the world needs less weapons not more of them.
A lame duck President, if you opt for last minute escalation, you will 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.
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. You must listen to the will of the people. For the sake of the people and the planet, it’s imperative the US reverse course on this omnicidal path, call off the missiles and support an immediate ceasefire.
Diplomacy now!
