Tag: Ukraine

"If even a single 100-kiloton nuclear weapon exploded over the Kremlin, it could kill a quarter of a million people."

In recent days, media coverage of a possible summit between Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin has taken on almost wistful qualities, as though the horsemen of the apocalypse are already out of the barn.

As US forces head to Europe and Asia, war risk grows.

We believe that a joint international civic movement with an anti-war and pro-human rights stance is a necessity and commit ourselves to pursue its formation throughout Europe.

Do the people of Europe really want to participate in the madness of aggression against Russia? Of course not!

If the U.S. government wants to play a constructive role in Ukraine, it should genuinely support this already existing framework for a solution to the crisis, and end the heavy-handed U.S. intervention that has only undermined and delayed its implementation.

"Wars rarely turn out the way the experts tell us they will. Just ask the officials who provided rosy scenarios for the wars in Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq."

CODEPINK is calling for "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" as tensions at the Russia-Ukraine border exacerbate.

The European security order has broken down. The conflict around Ukraine is a symptom of this larger problem.

Aiding and abetting a potentially catastrophic—and I do mean catastrophic—confrontation between the world’s two nuclear superpowers are lawmakers on Capitol Hill.