Last month, a very dangerous escalation in the war in Ukraine took place, bringing the world closer to nuclear war: the U.S. authorized the Ukrainian regime to fire American-made missiles into Russian territory, and Great Britain granted the same authorization in regard to British-made missiles.
As a result, on November 19, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) launched a volley of U.S.–made missiles at targets in Russia. A day later the AFU fired a similar barrage of British-made missiles into Russian territory. Then, on November 23 and 25, Ukraine, with the support of the U.S./NATO, again fired missiles into Russia.
In response to the first two attacks, Russian officials stated that Russia now considers itself at war with the Western powers and attacked a Ukrainian target with a new-generation hypersonic missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, and they have since escalated their attacks on Ukraine.
Both Scott Ritter, former UN weapons inspector in Iraq, and Ray McGovern, Russia expert and former CIA agent, are extremely concerned about the new developments and feel that the dangers of nuclear war are extremely high (For a discussion with these experts, watch Consortium News Live! ‘Escalation’).
President Biden’s approval of long-range weapons to strike inside Russia brings the world closer to the brink of nuclear war than we’ve been since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. We urgently need a diplomatic resolution to the U.S. 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.
Click the link below for an action alert from our friends at Code Pink, to send a letter to your Congressmembers, urging them to support a ceasefire and a diplomatic resolution, rather than risk nuclear war with Russia.
Also please call Senators Bennett and Hickenlooper and your Congressional Representative. You can reach all of their offices through the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (866) 338-1015.
And please call the White House at (202) 456-1414.
