{"id":5513,"date":"2022-10-01T07:09:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T11:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=5513"},"modified":"2022-10-01T08:38:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T12:38:12","slug":"war-in-ukraine-hits-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=5513","title":{"rendered":"War in Ukraine Hits Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Make no doubt about it, you and I are funding the war in Ukraine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignleft is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"BIDEN: &quot;If Russia invades Ukraine there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2. We will bring end to it&quot;\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xxXr7Oe_toA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We are paying for the killing with billions of our taxpayer dollars for military aid to Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When in fact we should be pushing for a negotiated end to this war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are only two choices now for Ukraine &#8212; negotiated peace.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Or war.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And God forbid, nuclear war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is growing consensus across the left\/right political divide for peace \u2013 voices from <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/3495060-here-are-the-11-republican-senators-who-voted-against-the-ukraine-aid-bill\/\">Rand Paul<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1MJDvr-1Z-A&amp;ab_channel=FoxNews\">Tucker Carlson, Henry Kissinger and Candace Owens<\/a> on the right to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7uHGlfeCBbE&amp;ab_channel=LexFridman\">Noam Chomsky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/therealnews.com\/this-is-not-a-drill-the-music-and-politics-of-roger-waters\">Chris Hedges and Roger Waters<\/a> on the left.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yes, Henry Kissinger, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/world\/2022\/05\/24\/henry-kissinger-ukraine-russia-territory-davos\/\">who in a May speech<\/a> said the failure to restart negotiations with Russia and the further alienation of the Kremlin would have dire long-term consequences for stability in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cNegotiations need to begin in the next two months before it creates upheavals and tensions that will not be easily overcome,\u201d he said. \u201cIdeally, the dividing line should be a return to the status quo ante. Pursuing the war beyond that point would not be about the freedom of Ukraine, but a new war against Russia itself.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Why then is there no anti-war movement in Berkeley Springs, in Morgan County, in West Virginia or the United States for that matter?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Because liberals were always at the center of anti-war movements. And liberals are now part of the war party in control of Congress and the White House.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sikorski-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5517\" width=\"366\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sikorski-1.jpg 656w, https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sikorski-1-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 366px) 100vw, 366px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>President Biden is taking the lead in funneling through Congress billions in military aid to Ukraine. And not one Democrat in Congress voted against the war funding package. Not Bernie Sanders. Not AOC. Not one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was quite surprising to read that every single Democrat voted to send $40 billion worth of aid, much of it military, to Ukraine while Ukraine is at war,\u201d Brown University&#8217;s Stephen Kinzer told the <em>Capitol Hill Citizen <\/em>earlier this year. \u201cThere were no Democratic voices for peace. There were no Democratic voices for negotiations. No Democrat stood up and asked: \u2018would we like to have an enemy based on our border?\u2019 No Democrat stood up to ask: \u2018What is so awful about a neutral Ukraine?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead of negotiations, the Democrats are now into escalation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this week, the two major gas pipelines&nbsp; &#8212; Nord Stream 1 and 2 &#8212; that would funnel natural gas from Russia to Europe started leaking natural gas.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>European officials from the EU, Norway and Denmark all said that the damage was likely caused by a deliberate attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In February of this year, at a meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at the White House, President Biden warned that if Russia invaded Ukraine, the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was in trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf Russia invades . . .there will be no longer a Nord Stream 2,\u201d Biden said. \u201cWe will bring an end to it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A reporter then asked Biden:&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut how will you do that, exactly, since the project is within Germany&#8217;s control?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI promise you, we will be able to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Radek Sikorski, a former Polish foreign minister, current Member of European Parliament and husband of neocon <em>Atlantic<\/em> magazine reporter Anne Applebaum, suggested on Twitter this week that Washington was behind the attack.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He posted a picture on Twitter of the underwater leak and then wrote &#8212;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThank you, USA.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A couple of days later, he deleted the tweet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In an article last week in the <em>San Jose Mercury News<\/em> titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/2022\/09\/29\/9517505-ukraine-putin-ceasefire-russia\/\">Stop Fanning the Flames of War. Seek a Ceasefire in Ukraine<\/a>, Marcy Winograd and Medea Benjamin wrote that \u201ca constant flow of U.S. weapons serves as a disincentive to peace negotiations.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in March, just one month after the invasion, Ukraine and Russia had tentatively agreed to a 15-point peace plan, \u201conly to have it undermined by Britain\u2019s then Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who reportedly told Zelensky not to sign the deal because the United Kingdom would not be party to any agreement with Russia, and the West would supply Ukraine with all the weapons needed to defeat Russia,\u201d Winograd and Benjamin wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a national broadcast, Putin recently warned \u2013 \u201cIn the face of a threat to the territorial integrity of our country, to protect Russia and our people, we will certainly use all the means at our disposal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Days later, White House National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan told the media \u2013&nbsp; \u201cWe have communicated directly, privately, at very high levels, to the Kremlin that any use of nuclear weapons will be met with catastrophic consequences for Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf the U.S. State Department is communicating with the Kremlin on the consequences of a nuclear first strike, surely the Biden administration can sit down with the leaders of Russia to support a ceasefire and peaceful settlement,\u201d Winograd and Benjamin wrote.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The military industrial complex is in control of both parties. Virtually everyone with power in Washington \u2013 from both parties \u2013 is in favor of confrontation with Russia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means a shooting war with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What to do?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Time to put aside our differences and come together in Berkeley Springs, in Morgan County and in West Virginia and say to those fueling the fire \u2013 time to negotiate, no war with Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make no doubt about it, you and I are funding the war in Ukraine. We are paying for the killing with billions of our taxpayer dollars for military aid to Ukraine.\u00a0 When in fact we should be pushing for a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=5513\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5513"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5513\/revisions\/5529"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}