More than 100 national and regional U.S. organizations released a joint statement Tuesday urging President Biden "to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine." The groups said "it is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons."
The statement warned that the current crisis "could easily spiral out of control to the point of pushing the world to the precipice of nuclear war."
Release of the statement came with an announcement of a virtual news conference set for Wednesday morning -- with speakers including a former U.S. ambassador to Moscow, Jack F. Matlock Jr.; The Nation editorial director Katrina vanden Heuvel, who is president of the American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord; and Martin Fleck, representing Physicians for Social Responsibility. Journalists can sign up to attend the Noon EST Feb. 2 news conference via Zoom by clicking here -- Click Here -- and will then receive a confirmation email with an access link.
Organizations signing the statement included Physicians for Social Responsibility, RootsAction.org, Code Pink, Just Foreign Policy, Peace Action, Veterans For Peace, Our Revolution, MADRE, Progressive Democrats of America, American Committee for U.S.-Russia Accord, Pax Christi USA, Fellowship of Reconciliation, Center for Citizen Initiatives, and the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.
Outreach for the statement was coordinated by Code Pink and RootsAction.org. Below is the statement's full text.
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A Statement from U.S. Organizations on the Ukraine Crisis
[ February 1, 2022 ]
As organizations representing millions of people in the United States, we call upon President Biden to end the U.S. role in escalating the extremely dangerous tensions with Russia over Ukraine. It is gravely irresponsible for the president to participate in brinkmanship between two nations that possess 90 percent of the world's nuclear weapons.
For the United States and Russia, the only sane course of action now is a commitment to genuine diplomacy with serious negotiations, not military escalation - which could easily spiral out of control to the point of pushing the world to the precipice of nuclear war.
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