Suggesting we do nothing to support a country that is being ruthlessly invaded doesn't make you "anti-war."

Feb 26, 2022 · 10:40 PM UTC

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Yanis Varoufakis
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24 Feb 2022
The only issue today should be to stop the war and to secure the withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. The only way that could happen is a Washington-Moscow agreement that Russia withdraws in exchange for a commitment of Ukrainian neutrality. Anything else is war mongering.
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If you put people first you don’t go to war.
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and what does ignoring the decades of misguided Western hubristic imperial thought & broken promises that brought us to this point make one, Marianne? 🤔
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I don’t want to die in a nuclear strike.
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It makes you “anti-war at home” and still is commendable. We should have advocated for “do nothing” in 2014 and then a few months ago. Ukrainians are paying for imperialist ambitions of Russia AND the United States.
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If we didn't aid in the provocations, there would've been no "attack."
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Taken in a vacuum, this statement is correct. When weighed against decades of US imperialism and intervention the calculus changes. When weighed against the realities of the last 3 decades of Euro/Russian geopolitical theater--it's impossible to pretend to understand
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The best way to support Ukraine would be for the State Dept to actively encourage and support and facilitate talks and diplomacy between Ukraine and Russia right now, instead of saying "no, now's not the time"
Kevin Gosztola is on Bluesky and Threads @kgosztola
25 Feb 2022
US State Department has come out in opposition to Zelenskyy and Putin meeting to discuss potential ceasefire. (!) "Now we see Moscow suggesting that diplomacy take place at the barrel of a gun, or as Moscow’s rockets, mortars, artillery target the Ukrainian people."
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Marianne, America's interference through the 2014 coup in Ukraine was the trigger point for the cascading events that followed. To continue to interfere in this region is trying to pour more gasoline to put out a fire.
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