On Thursday, Matt Gaetz will introduce a resolution in the House that calls for the Biden administration to cease U.S. military and financial assistance to Ukraine. The measure also calls for a peace agreement as the war will enter its second year on February 24.
Hersh’s reporting shows that Biden and his advisors secretly planned this act of aggression against Russia long before Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. “The Biden Administration was doing everything possible to avoid leaks as the planning took place late in 2021 and into the first months of 2022,” he wrote. The motive for the attack was that “As long as Europe remained dependent on the pipelines for cheap natural gas, Washington was afraid that countries like Germany would be reluctant to supply Ukraine with the money and weapons it needed to defeat Russia.”
Speaking on behalf of the international anti-war movement, Waters declared, “From the four billion or so brothers and sisters in this voiceless majority, who together with the millions in the international anti-war movement represent a huge constituency: enough is enough. We demand change. President Biden, President Putin, President Zelenskyy, USA, NATO, Russia, the EU, all of you, please change course now. Agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine today.”
A 7.5 magnitude aftershock hit 10 hours after the first earthquake. So far 243 aftershocks were recorded. 1,200 rescuers and 70 dogs pulled over 8,000 people from beneath the rubble. 19 countries are actively involved in helping Turkey and Syria. 380,000 people are looking for refuge.
Despite being mixed up in corruption scandals last month involving the Ukrainian government, it does not appear that Oleksii Reznikov will lose his position as Ukraine’s Defense Minister this week, according to a statement from President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday. However, Ukraine’s ruling party, Servant of the People, issued a statement on Sunday indicating that Reznikov will be replaced as Defense Minister at some point.
United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres issued a bleak warning Monday during a speech before the 193-member UN General Assembly in which he said that the world is headed toward a “wider war” in Ukraine due to continuous escalations.
Dömötör called the resolution “everything but a call for peace, more like a big step towards the escalation of the war. The 7th point of the resolution calls for deliveries of more armored vehicles and ammunition, to be followed by long-distance missile systems and fighter jets to the war-torn country.”