One commentator who has been sounding the alarm about the Ukraine policy is Tucker Carlson of FOX. He's been questioning American policy since the beginning of the war.
On a recent show -- after reporting Zelensky's rash comment that it was time for the West to nuke Russia -- Carlson said: "If there was a moment for the Biden administration to shut this whole thing down and force a negotiated peace, which they could do it in an instant, that moment is right now before huge numbers of people die.
"But that's not what the Biden administration is doing," Carlson said. "They are moving in the other direction at high speed and doing all they can to bring the West to the brink of destruction."
Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet union implementing arms-control treaties and also oversaw the disarmament of WMDs in Iraq, wrote recently in Consortium News that the situation in Ukraine is dire and it is absolutely necessary for both President Biden and President Putin to step up to the plate and engage in serious talks to make sure that the war in Ukraine doesn't become a nuclear holocaust.
"We are, literally, on the eve of destruction," Ritter said. "Now is the time for the kind of political maturity leaders rarely demonstrate. The onus is on Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin to make sure that even while events on the ground in Europe devolve into chaos and violence, the leaders of the world's two largest nuclear arsenals do not allow emotion to get the better reason the consequences of failure in this regard are, for humidity, terminal."
It's clear we are heading in a deadly direction and everyone who cares about the fate of the planet needs to step up. Call your senators and congresspeople and demand that they push the administration to stop fueling the war with more weapons and instead work for a negotiated peace settlement. The Capitol switchboard is 202-224-3121. Call the White House line at 202-456-1111 and tell them you don't want nuclear war and you want the administration to help bring an end to the Ukraine War. You can also write a letter to the local newspaper and demand peace.
Also, various peace and anti-war groups are planning events to protest the US policy in Ukraine. Check them out. One is Code Pink and another is the United National Anti-war Coalition.
About 20 years ago, I attended an anti-war rally in Times Square in New York City just before a congressional vote on authorizing an American invasion of Iraq -- something that led to the disastrous Iraq war, which killed over 1 million people. Ramsey Clark, the former attorney general and noted peace activist, was urging people to raise their voices in opposition to war.
"Your life may depend on it,,, believe me," he said.
So it is today. Speak out against prolonging the Ukraine war and demand peace.
Your life may depend on it.
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