[Occupymendocino] [Fwd: US Should Not Arm the Ukraine Against Russia]

[agnes at mcn.org]

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Subject: US Should Not Arm the Ukraine Against Russia
From:    "John Lewallen" <lewallen at mcn.org>
Date:    Fri, February 6, 2015 1:55 pm
To:      "Jamie Lee" <jwlpeace at gmail.com>
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Please read John Lewallen's letter. We need to de-escalate rhetoric of a
cold war which could turn very hot on Russia's border and turn into a
nuclear exchange.
Agnes.


US Should Not Arm the Ukraine Against Russia



Dear Friend,

            If the United States supplies military equipment to the
Ukraine, it will cross a big red line in the ongoing
thermonuclear weapons confrontation between the US and Russia:
the US would be involved in a war on Russia's border, raising
the credible Russian fear that the US might carry out
longstanding "contingency" plans to attack and destroy
Russia's entire nuclear strike force.

            It would be suicidally insane for the US to get involved in
the war in Ukraine. The US and Russia always have over a
thousand nuclear weapons poised to launch at each other's
homelands at short notice by missile, from the sea and air,
aimed at us, all of us. Both nations' nuclear arsenals have
serious deterioration and maintenance problems.

            It is urgent to de-escalate all tensions with Russia. Russia
has said it needs its nuclear arsenal to defend its homeland,
and recently said that "tactical" nuclear weapons might be
used if Russia is attacked.

            This is no way for any of us to live. The whole human society
is entirely interdependent. The sane US military strategy, I
believe, is to avoid any military involvement in the Ukraine,
and de-escalate nuclear first-strike threats against Russia.

John Lewallen

PO Box 455

Philo, CA 95466

(707)895-2996


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